Toward Nutrient-Rich Rice: Biofortification through Mineral Accumulation and Low Phytic Acid Content
Bibliographic record
Abstract
High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Nicotianamine synthases regulate the biosynthesis of two mineral chelators key for rice grain biofortification, nicotianamine (NA) and 2′-deoxymugineic acid (DMA). We produced transgenic rice expressing OsNAS2 under the OsRCc3 promoter ( RcN2 ) and mutated OsLpa1 in these ( lpa1 RcN2 ) and the wild-type ( lpa1 ) to enhance essential mineral accumulation in grains while lowering phytic acid (PA) levels. NA and DMA contents were higher in the brown grains of RcN2, lpa1 RcN2, and lpa1 plants. The grains of these lines accumulated increased levels of essential minerals, with lpa1 RcN2 exhibiting the greatest increases. PA-bound iron and zinc levels were lower in lpa1 and lpa1 RcN2 grains, while NA- and DMA-bound iron and zinc levels were higher in RcN2, lpa1 RcN2, and lpa1 grains. Field-grown RcN2 plants showed no significant growth penalties, unlike lpa1 and lpa1 RcN2 . Furthermore, lpa1 and lpa1 RcN2 grains were chalky, a property that facilitates rice flour production.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".