date:Aug 21, 2017
to fortify a wide variety of crops with betalains in order to increase their nutritional value, says Aharoni.
An additional benefit is that the researchers discovered that betalains protect plants against gray mold, Botrytis cinerea, which annually causes losses of agricultural crops worth billions of dollars. The study showed that resistance to gray mold rose by a whopping 90 percent in plants engineered to make betalains.
The scientists had produced versions of betalain that do not exist in