> Golden Rice showed that beta carotene was produced at consistently high levels in the grain, and that grain quality was comparable to the conventional variety. However, yields of candidate lines were not consistent across locations and seasons, prompting research direction toward assessing Golden Rice versions such as GR2-E and others. [1]
Let's keep researching (whether GM or not) ways to make crops more nutritious and higher yielding (search dilution effect e.g. [2], [3]), not just more herbicide resistant. Let's get the cost of GM research down so that we can end the terrible business and ecological practices surrounding GMO.
While I agree that Greenpeace is not helping here, this article is too friendly to GMO. Ignoring Monsanto in an article about GM is totally disingenuous.*
[1] http://irri.org/golden-rice/faqs/what-is-the-status-of-the-g...
[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0065211308...
[3] http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/content/44/1/15.full
*Showing a picture of their Bangalore Center does not count