Before those grim visions could come to pass, the green revolution transformed global agriculture, especially wheat and rice. Through selective breeding, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist ...

A research team led by Prof. Xu Cao from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of ...

The Green Revolution was so successful that dire predictions ... genetically engineered crops with climate-friendly features—such as the ability to thrive in droughts or floods, generate their ...

The European green revolution designed to slow down climate change globally is threatening the way of life of the Sámi people, one of the continent’s last-remaining indigenous groups.

Photo by Trina Kleist, UC Davis. Dwarfing genes in cereal crops made the Green Revolution of the 1960s possible, but they have limitations. Scientists at UC Davis have discovered a gene that can ...

He was referred to as the father of Green Revolution in India, for his leadership and role in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice in the country.

India's "green revolution" allowed the country to produce enough food to feed its population - but 40 years on, is this revolution unravelling? The Green Revolution was a deliberate, all-out attempt ...

The MS Swaminathan Research Foundation at Taramani in Chennai is a standing monument to the Father of India’s Green Revolution. When he was awarded the first ever World Food Prize in 1987 ...