Ugandan scientists have developed a genetically modified banana that took millions of dollars and 20 years to make. It contains so much provitamin A, a substance that transforms into vitamin A in the body, that its flesh has a distinctive orange tint.
This super banana was created at Uganda’s National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL) to save the lives of thousands of Ugandan children who die every year from vitamin A deficiency.
The breakthrough is the result of a partnership of the lab in Kawanda, where Tushemereirwe serves as director, James Dale, an Australian agricultural scientist and banana expert, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Source: geneticliteracyproject.org