India Science Wire
Viewpoint: ‘Discrimination against new crops’: India speeds up approval process for gene-edited crops — but still disadvantages safe GMOs
The Indian government exempted crops with certain kinds of genetic modifications introduced by genome editing from cumbersome and time-consuming regulations previously imposed ...
Viewpoint: India’s ‘foreign DNA’ delusion — Why the country needs to modernize genetically modified crop regulations
India has a long and dubious record of regulating genetically altered crops for agriculture. While the nation began at the ...
Nutrient-fortified, drought-tolerant chickpea could provide sustainable protein source for India
Chickpea is a major source of protein for the people in India. It is grown mainly in semi-arid regions during ...
New GMO rice variety could cut arsenic exposure in food
Arsenic accumulation in rice grains is one of the serious agricultural issues in India. To address this, researchers at Lucknow-based ...
Indian scientists develop hybrid corn variety high in vitamin A
Researchers at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) have developed a maize variety which is rich in both Vitamin A ...