Transgenic aubergine still banned after encouraging report is discredited. India’s moratorium on genetically modified food crops is unlikely to be lifted after it emerged that key sections from a landmark report by six Indian science academies, which recommended that the country resume planting of GM food crops, had been plagiarized from an article in favour of such crops. The environment ministry this week rejected the academies’ report. The anti-GM-crops lobby has seized on the controversy, and Indian scientists fear that the episode has undermined the country’s international scientific reputation.