India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

There are probably already too many people on the planet.