India will receive the full production transfer of GM Golden Rice from Switzerland, five years after the strain was engineered to help combat blindness and disease in Asia.

Golden rice has attracted much attention because it has been developed to contain building blocks for vitamin A.

The prospect of offering daily doses of key nutrients to millions of Asians in their staple food has excited both researchers and governments world-wide.

Golden Rice is a transgenic variety of rice, which has genes for the synthesis of b-carotene. These genes are taken from the garden favourite Narcissus pseudonarcissus (daffodil) and inserted into the genome of a temperate strain of rice.

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