Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.

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

We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.