Vitamin A enhanced sorghum close to completion

DuPont Pioneer scientists are working with researchers in the US and Africa to enhance sorghum with pro-vitamin A and eventually iron and zinc through biofortification.

This would ensure improved nutrition for the nearly 300 million people in Africa who depend on sorghum as a staple crop and who do not have access to another staple that provides the essential nutrients that sorghum lacks.

Vitamin A deficiency, in particular, is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children and increases the risk of disease and death from severe infections.