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Define biofortified crops.

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Biofortified crops are the crops obtained from the process of biofortification.
Biofortification enriches the nutritional quality of food crops by using conventional plant breeding and modern biotechnological techniques.
Golden rice is enriched with the beta carotene gene that expresses beta carotene which when consumed can be converted to Vitamin A in the human body.

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