Recreate the cozy comfort of Saizeriya’s Meat Doria at home! This Japanese-style rice gratin layers buttery rice, savory meat ...

Sasanishiki rice, once as admired as Koshihikari, was beloved in many Japanese households. Its sophisticated flavor and exceptional capacity.

Since Christmas, the most precocious of our garden daffodils have been coming into bloom — fragrant Scilly and Cornish varieties that have long given that part of the world a head start in the English ...

In April, the Philippines’ Supreme Court heeded farmers’ and activists’ calls to look into the safety promise of Golden Rice, a genetically modified grain created to tackle the vitamin A ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines harvested over 100 tons of genetically modified “Golden” or “Malusog” Rice in 17 pioneer production sites across the country, the Philippine Rice ...

In the late 1990s, German scientists developed a genetically modified variety of rice called Golden Rice. It was claimed to be able to fight Vitamin A deficiency, which is the leading cause of ...

In 1999, the duo presented the first prototype of what would become known as Golden Rice — the rice accumulated beta-carotene in its grains due to genes transferred from daffodils. The grains had a ...

Instead of daffodil genes, the plant scientists used genes from sweet corn. This led to a significant increase in the rice grains’ beta-carotene content compared to the prototype. Golden Rice was ...

The scientists behind golden rice inserted a gene found in daffodils, along with a gene from a type of soil bacterium, into the genome of a common domestic rice variety. Genetically modified crops ...

The first-generation Golden Rice (known as GR1) was developed through infusing genes from daffodil, but later the second-generation variety (known as GR2) was developed by taking a gene from corn as ...