While developing countries across the globe have fast-tracked the adoption of genetically modified crops - outstripping industrialised nations - India, ironically, is dragging its feet, disregarding the admirable success of transgenic Bt cotton. With field trials of new GM crops having been put on hold, cotton is likely to remain the only gene-altered crop to be grown in India in the near future. Elsewhere, as many as 25 tailor-made gene-manipulated crops have already got regulatory approvals for commercialisation in different countries, including the developing ones.