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Provitamin A Maize Response to Environmental Stress Conditions
Author(s) -
John Doe
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
csa news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2325-3584
pISSN - 1529-9163
DOI - 10.2134/csa2019.64.s060
Subject(s) - environmental stress , fight or flight response , stress (linguistics) , environmental science , biology , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , biochemistry , gene
Many people in Africa suffer from vitamin A deficiency, which leads to blindness and other health problems in adults and children. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico has developed orange maize inbred lines with high levels of β-carotene, the precursor to vitamin A. The problem is that many of these inbred lines are poorly adapted to the conditions experienced by small-scale producers in sub-Saharan Africa, such as heat, drought, and low soil fertility.