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The general objective of the Africa Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) project is to develop and deploy sorghum with enhanced pro-vitamin A to farmers and end-users in Africa to alleviate vitamin A-related micronutrient deficiency diseases. To achieve this objective the project technology development team has developed several promising high pro-vitamin A sorghum events. ABS 203 events are so far the most advanced and well-characterised lead events with about 12 \u03bcg \u03b2-carotene\/g tissue which would supply about 40\u201350 % of the daily recommended vitamin A at harvest. Through gene expression optimisation other events with higher amounts of pro-vitamin A, including ABS 214, ABS 235, ABS 239 with 25, 30\u201340, 40\u201350 \u03bcg \u03b2-carotene\/g tissue, respectively, have been developed. ABS 239 would provide twice recommended pro-vitamin A at harvest, 50\u201390 % after 3 months storage and 13\u201345 % after 6 months storage for children. 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