Engineering endosperm storage compartments enables simultaneous enrichment of multiple vitamins in rice.
Xingwei Cai
Huanteng Hou
Yuanyue Wang
Wenyao Tan
Haifeng Zhu
Mustafa Bulut
Zhuang Yang
Ran Xu
Xianqing Liu
A. Fernie
Jie Li
Yufei Li
Jie Luo
Medicine
Abstract
Engineering rice endosperm with modules for vitamin binding, lipid storage, and antioxidant protection enriched water- and fat-soluble vitamins without compromising key agronomic traits and maintained vitamin higher levels after cooking, demonstrating its potential to improve crop nutrition.