The modification could offer a new way to address vitamin D deficiency, a “global health problem” that affects about 1 billion people around the planet, they noted. The gene-edited tomatoes could also ...

Gene-edited tomato plants that produce a precursor to vitamin D could one day provide an animal-free source of the crucial nutrient. An estimated one billion people don’t have enough vitamin D ...

“Gene-editing tomatoes to accumulate provitamin D3 at ... unripe fruits to supplement manufacturers for processing into vitamin D tablets, said Martin.

With so many people spending the brightest hours of the day working indoors, vitamin D deficiencies are widespread and on the rise. The study, published in Nature Plants, found that by gene-editing ...

Gene-Edited Tomatoes Could Be a New Source of Vitamin D May 23, 2022 — Tomatoes gene-edited to produce vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, could be a simple and sustainable innovation to address a ...

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The modification could offer a new way to address vitamin D deficiency, a “global health problem” that affects about 1 billion people around the planet, they noted. The gene-edited tomatoes ...

Gene-edited tomatoes could be a new source of vitamin D and help to reduce deficiency across the world, a new study suggests. Researchers found that the salad favourite can be engineered to ...

Gene-edited tomatoes could be a new source of vitamin D and help to reduce deficiency across the world, a new study suggests. Researchers found that the salad favourite can be engineered to produce ...