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Wednesday Nite @ the Lab

Vegetables and Vitamins: How Carrots Came to be a Major Source of Vitamin A

Event Details

Date
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Time
7 p.m.
Description
Explore the genetics and biochemistry that drive the culinary and nutritive factors in carrots. Carrots put the carot in carotene. And this work helps continue the century-long saga of Vitamin A discovery and research and keeping vitamins a part of plant breeding that helps make foods more colorful, tastier and healthier. Live videostream at biotech.wisc.edu/webcams.
Cost
Free

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