Food & agriculture · 2000

Golden rice

Rice engineered to make beta-carotene, aimed at vitamin A deficiency that blinds children.

Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer published golden rice in 2000. After two decades of regulatory review, the Philippines approved it for commercial cultivation in 2021, the first country to do so.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

First transgenic plant 1983
IR8 miracle rice 1966

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Child mortality (under 5) Latest: 3.74 % (2024) Source: Our World in Data

Cereal yield Latest: 4.21 t/ha (2024) Source: Our World in Data