In this article we will discuss about the metabolic redesign of vitamin E. Vitamin E is a generic term used to describe a group of eight lipophilic compounds in the tocopherol and tocotrienol family. The vitamin E-family in plants comprises mainly of tocotrienols and tocopherols. Tocotrienols are the major form of vitamin E in seeds of most monocots but presence [...]
The concept of edible vaccines stem from Charles Arntzen of Texas University, USA, when he saw a mother offering a piece of banana to a crying baby. With the advent of introducing gene into the plants, he then mooted the idea that food could be genetically altered to produce vaccine in their edible parts, which could then be eaten to [...]
In this article we will discuss about the improvement of seed oil (pufa oil) for health benefits. Plant oil containing greatest degree of fatty acids is essential nutrients for animal inÂcluding human being. The unsaturated fatty acid rice oil undoubtedly increases nutritional value of edible oil. Polies unsaturated fatty acids are popularly known as PUFA oil play a critical role [...]