日本农林水产省在“最近的农林水产研究动向”网页栏目中发布消息,东京大学与日本国家农业生物资源研究所合作,利用转基因技术,将从土壤中吸收铁、向植株输送铁并促使铁在种子中积蓄的关联基因转入水稻,成功培育出将大米含铁量提高4倍的水稻。 Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the “recent research trends in agriculture, forestry and fisheries ” section of the message, the University of Tokyo and Japan’s National Institute of Agrobiological Resources, the use of genetically modified technology, will absorb iron from the soil, the iron transport to the plant and to promote Iron-related genes accumulated in the seeds were transferred to rice and rice, which increased the iron content of rice by 4 times, was successfully bred.