Question
Give any two examples of biofortified transgenic crops.
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Answer
Examples of biofortified transgenic crops are as follows:
- Golden rice and Golden mustard These are transgenics rich in vitamin A.
- Arabidopsis genes are transferred to soybean, oil palm, rapeseed and sunflower for improvement in oil content and oil quality.
- Ferritin, an iron storage protein, isolated from soybean and Phaseolus is transferred to rice to increase its iron content.
- Plants deficient in amino acids like methionine, lysine and tryptophan have been engineered to improve protein content.
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