date:Jun 19, 2014
beta-carotene, which the body converts to vitamin A. The carotene enrichment gives the bananas an orange hue on the inside.
Good science can make a massive difference here by enriching staple crops such as Ugandan bananas with pro-vitamin A and providing poor and subsistence-farming populations with nutritionally rewarding food, Queensland University professor James Dale, who is leading the project, said in a statement.
Legislation to enable genetically-modified crops to be commercialised in U