Researchers at the John Innes Center in the UK have developed high-iron wheat.

Wheat is genetically modified, and the UK government has granted permission to conduct field trials for three years under controlled conditions in the Norwich Research Park.

Wheat, which can be used to produce high-iron flour, can play a role in combating iron deficiencies in the human body and eliminate the need to add iron to flour.

According to the John Innes Center, traditional breeding methods have not allowed to obtain wheat with a high iron content. The John Innes Center supported the use of genetic engineering to increase iron levels in wheat from the charitable organization HarvestPlus.

Dr. Janneke Balk explained the new technology: “In this case, we took a bit that encodes a transport using a normative bit, which is very pronounced in the center of the grain. It penetrates into plants and puts a certain part of its DNA into the plant, and this is what we use. We mainly use agrobacterium as a means of introducing a small amount of DNA. "