Peter Beyer, born in 1952, is a German professor of cell biology at the University of Freiburg. He is known as the co-inventor, together with Ingo Potrykus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, of golden rice, the genetically engineered rice biofortified with provitamin A.
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Defining ContributionCo-inventor, with Ingo Potrykus, of Golden Rice, engineering the beta-carotene biosynthesis pathway into rice endosperm. 1 In the Other Atlases
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Peter Beyer (born 9 May 1952) is a German professor for cell biology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg.
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Peter Beyer (born 9 May 1952) is a German professor for cell biology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg.
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He is known as co-inventor of golden rice, together with Ingo Potrykus from the ETH Zurich.
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