Authors
Dieter Blancquaert, Jeroen Van Daele, Simon Strobbe, Filip Kiekens, Sergei Storozhenko, Hans De Steur, Xavier Gellynck, Willy Lambert, Christophe Stove, Dominique Van Der Straeten
Publication date
2015/10
Journal
Nature Biotechnology
Volume
33
Issue
10
Pages
1076-1078
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group US
Description
Biofortification of staple crops could help to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies in humans. We show that folates in stored rice grains are unstable, which reduces the potential benefits of folate biofortification. We obtain folate concentrations that are up to 150 fold higher than those of wild-type rice by complexing folate to folate-binding proteins to improve folate stability, thereby enabling long-term storage of biofortified high-folate rice grains.
Scholar articles
D Blancquaert, J Van Daele, S Strobbe, F Kiekens… - Nature Biotechnology, 2015