{"id":116431,"date":"2020-11-29T04:23:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T12:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/these-golden-bananas-could-save-the-lives-of-many-children-in-uganda"},"modified":"2020-11-29T04:23:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T12:23:16","slug":"these-golden-bananas-could-save-the-lives-of-many-children-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/these-golden-bananas-could-save-the-lives-of-many-children-in-uganda","title":{"rendered":"These Golden Bananas Could Save The Lives Of Many Children In Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zc-vo2ZzB70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed a new type of banana that could help the many children in Uganda who have a pro-vitamin A deficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cgolden bananas\u201d, named for their appearance, were developed by a team from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, led by Professor James Dale. The findings have been published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/pbi.12650\/full\">Plant Biotechnology Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hoped that by 2021, Ugandan farmers will be growing bananas rich in pro-vitamin A. About $10 million was supplied by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation for the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed a new type of banana that could help the many children in Uganda who have a pro-vitamin A deficiency. The so-called \u201cgolden bananas\u201d, named for their appearance, were developed by a team from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, led by Professor James Dale. The findings have been published in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}