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M.S. Swaminathan, ‘father of India’s Green Revolution,’ says he’s not opposed to GMO crops

Gayathri Vaidynathan | Science | December 19, 2018

Indian scientist M.S. Swaminathan. Image Credit: financialexpress.com

An iconic Indian agricultural scientist is distancing himself from a recent editorial he co-authored that is critical of genetically modified (GM) crops, and has sparked furious debate among the nation’s researchers.

Geneticist Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, 93, has been dubbed the father of India’s Green Revolution, which in the 1960s and 1970s delivered new, high-yield crop varieties to the nation’s farmers ….

Researchers took notice when, [in November], Swaminathan published an editorial in Current Science with Parthasarathy Chenna Kesavan, a researcher at the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai, India, which Swaminathan leads. The article questions the sustainability, safety, and regulation of GM crops ….

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