01.06.2011 | permalink
Indian plant biotechnologists feel demoralised and displeased at the recent developments concerning genetically modified crops. Their dismay is chiefly because the indefinite moratorium on the release of genetically engineered Bt-brinjal has clouded the prospects for several other GM crops that are in the pipeline. [...] Their displeasure is largely because the present opposition to the GM technology is based chiefly on misconceived apprehensions and not on proven facts.