06.02.2012 | permalink
WHEN the much-awaited public sector Bt or genetically modified cotton was released for cultivation in 2009, there was celebration in the scientific establishment. [...] Now, almost two years down the line the full details of the unsavoury episode have emerged and, according to old ICAR hands, this is possibly the biggest research scandal involving as it does the Indian Agriculture Research Institute’s prestigious National Research Centre for Plant Biotechnology.