As a first step, researchers reporting in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry have made transgenic rice that contains several anti-hypertensive peptides. When given to hypertensive rats, ...

There is a threat that the European Union and Japan might boycott China's exports if TG rice is grown, but the price is considered small compared with the potential domestic benefit.

Rice protoplasts were transformed with the 35S/ALS chimeric gene and regenerated into fertile transgenic rice (Oryza sativa) plants. The 35S/ALS gene was expressed effectively as demonstrated by ...

That was a relatively easy target, given that the rice strain that Zhang and his team have engineered since 2017 already contains about 11.7 percent fatty matter.