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Rice Genetic Engineering for Increased Amino Acid and Vitamin Contents

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Rice Research for Quality Improvement: Genomics and Genetic Engineering

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Plants are the major source of nutrients in the human diet. However, staple cereal crops lack certain amino acids and vitamins, and its nutritious content is not enough to provide a balanced diet. Rice is the most widely preferred food crop; thus, it is necessary that we enhance its nutritional content. This can be achieved through the process of biofortification using principles of genetic engineering. Rice is mainly known to be deficient in threonine and lysine. Hence, there has been great interest in using practical concepts of genetic engineering to increase the amino acid content of rice. Several studies are being carried out on overexpression of aminotransferases in order to obtain significant levels of essential amino acids. Efforts have also been taken to enhance the vitamin content of rice. Golden rice rich in vitamin A is one of the outcomes of such strategies. Similarly, transgenic approaches for the expression of enzymes responsible for synthesis of vitamin E have increased the levels considerably. Thus, genetic engineering and transgenic approaches can prove to be a solution to malnutrition, but further comprehensive study on metabolic pathways and its manipulation is necessary.

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Thangadurai, D., Soundar Raju, C., Sangeetha, J., Hospet, R., Pandhari, R. (2020). Rice Genetic Engineering for Increased Amino Acid and Vitamin Contents. In: Roychoudhury, A. (eds) Rice Research for Quality Improvement: Genomics and Genetic Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5337-0_29

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