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Nature Research, Nature Plants, 6(8), p. 611-616, 2022

DOI: 10.1038/s41477-022-01154-6

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Biofortified tomatoes provide a new route to vitamin D sufficiency

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Abstract

AbstractPoor vitamin D status is a global health problem; insufficiency underpins higher risk of cancer, neurocognitive decline and all-cause mortality. Most foods contain little vitamin D and plants are very poor sources. We have engineered the accumulation of provitamin D3in tomato by genome editing, modifying a duplicated section of phytosterol biosynthesis in Solanaceous plants, to provide a biofortified food with the added possibility of supplement production from waste material.