Biotechnology method to improve nutritional quality in rice / Siti Noormaizurah Mohd Rashid and Nor Azma Yusuf

• Main Authors: Mohd Rashid, Siti Noormaizurah, Yusuf, Nor Azma
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2018
• Subjects: Nutrition; Nutrition. Plant food. Assimilation of nitrogen, etc.
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/56286/1/56286.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/56286/

Rice feeds more than two billion people worldwide and is the number one staple food in Asia. It provides 40-70% of the total daily food calories consumed, however, is low in bio available micronutrients required for the daily diet. Major staple crops especially rice is often deficient in some of the...