Arsenic contamination on paddy becomes a bugaboo for several producer countries. Arsenic is highly poisonous and carcinogenic by nature or in other words the cause of cancer. Contamination comes from irrigation water that is polluted by hazardous heavy metal. A research result of Gerd Bienert and his associates in the University of Copenhangen, Denmark and University of Gothenburg, Sweden, found that contamination can be prevented by using seeds that have been inserted with nodulin26-like intrinsic protein (NIPs) into paddy gen. The protein functions to capture and transport arsenic, then excrete it through plant excretion.***
Paddy research : Protect Against Arsenic Contamination
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