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- Linear, no Threshold Model in Low-Dose Radiobiology: Ideology Versus Science
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Third Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 11, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Third Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 11, IN
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Current Science, Vol 106, No 1 (2014), Pagination: 7-8Abstract
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- From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Solutions
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 106, No 4 (2014), Pagination: 495-496Abstract
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- Linear, no Threshold Response at Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation: Ideology, Prejudice and Science
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 107, No 1 (2014), Pagination: 46-53Abstract
The linear, no threshold (LNT) response model assumes that there is no threshold dose for the radiationinduced genetic effects (heritable mutations and cancer), and it forms the current basis for radiation protection standards for radiation workers and the general public. The LNT model is, however, based more on ideology than valid radiobiological data. Further, phenomena such as 'radiation hormesis', 'radioadaptive response', 'bystander effects' and 'genomic instability' are now demonstrated to be radioprotective and beneficial. More importantly, the 'differential gene expression' reveals that qualitatively different proteins are induced by low and high doses. This finding negates the LNT model which assumes that qualitatively similar proteins are formed at all doses. Thus, all available scientific data challenge the LNT hypothesis.Keywords
Genomic Instability, Hormesis, Lnt Hypothesis, Radioadaptive Response, Stochastic Effects.Full Text
- Preface
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Current Science, Vol 109, No 3 (2015), Pagination: 415-416Abstract
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- Shaping Science as the Prime Mover of Sustainable Agriculture for Food and Nutrition Security in an Era of Environmental Degradation and Climate Change
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 109, No 3 (2015), Pagination: 488-501Abstract
At the time of India's independence in 1947, India's food production for national food security was highly insufficient. Malthusian scourge in the backdrop of Bengal famine of 1943 was looming. It was at a time of critical food shortage in the 1960s, commodity-centric exploitative agriculture, miscalled as Green Revolution, was ushered in by Swaminathan-Borlaug partnership. It changed India's image then as begging bowl to bread basket! As had been foreseen and forewarned, the Green Revolution resulted in environmental degradation, enhanced social inequities and had little to do with sustainable agriculture and rural development. With the lessons learnt, Swaminathan developed a systems approach-based evergreen revolution to achieve productivity in perpetuity without accompanying environmental and social harm. It is also designed to fight both the famines of food and rural livelihoods with the help of ecotechnologies having pro-nature, pro-poor, pro-women and pro-livelihood orientation. The present article elaborates these aspects.Keywords
Climate Change, Food and Nutrition Security, Science for Sustainable Agriculture.Full Text
- Birth and Growth of M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 109, No 3 (2015), Pagination: 502-512Abstract
The M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) set up as a not-for-profit scientific trust with M. S. Swaminathan as the Founder-Chairman in 1988 is dedicated to sustainable agriculture, natural resources management and rural development. Relevant science and ecotechnologies are harnessed for fostering human livelihood and conservation of nature. MSSRF has developed biovillages and modern ICT-based Village Knowledge Centres (VKCs) for skill and knowledge empowerment respectively of the rural communities. Ecotechnologies are the resultant of lending frontier technologies with traditional knowledge and ecological prudence of the indigenous communities. These have pro-nature, pro-poor and prowomen orientation. The evergreen revolution of MSSRF is designed to fight both the famines of food and rural livelihoods. As against the bureaucratic 'top-down' approach, MSSRF practices 'bottom-up' and participatory approach. The VKCs with lab to land and land to lab linkages provide solutions almost instantaneously to the problems of the small and marginal farming, fishing and landless rural families. These are briefly discussed in the paper.Keywords
Biovillages, Evergreen Revolution, MSSRF, Natural Resources Management, Sustainable Rural Livelihoods, Village Knowledge Centres.Full Text
- Human-Animal Conflicts
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Third Cross Street, Tharamani Institutional Area, Tharamani, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Third Cross Street, Tharamani Institutional Area, Tharamani, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 107, No 8 (2014), Pagination: 1222-1223Abstract
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- 2014 International Year of Family Farming: A Boost to Evergreen Revolution
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 107, No 12 (2014), Pagination: 1970-1974Abstract
The evergreen revolution aims at achieving productivity in perpetuity without accompanying ecological and social harm. The smallholder family farms with pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation provide a boost to the evergreen revolution. Revitalization of family farming traditions with emphasis on the empowerment of women and youth will enhance small farm productivity and profitability on the one hand, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture on the other. Family farms enhance the rural livelihoods. Corporate farming displaces three to four jobs for every single job created. Monocropping largely practiced by the corporate farms is not conducive to develop strategies to provide agricultural remedies to nutritional maladies in different agro-ecological regions.Keywords
Corporate and Family Farming, Evergreen Revolution, Hunger-Free World, Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture.Full Text
- M. S. Swaminathan: A Journey from the Frontiers of Life Sciences to the State of a 'Zero Hunger' World
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P. C. Kesavan
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R. D. Iyer
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
2 Navasakti Trust, Thazhava, Karunagappally 690 523, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
2 Navasakti Trust, Thazhava, Karunagappally 690 523, IN
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Current Science, Vol 107, No 12 (2014), Pagination: 2036-2051Abstract
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- The Big Ratchet: how Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis - a Biography of an Ingenious Species
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 108, No 8 (2015), Pagination: 1550-1551Abstract
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- Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 110, No 2 (2016), Pagination: 127-128Abstract
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- Horticulture for Nutrition Security
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Third Cross Road, Institutional Area, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Third Cross Road, Institutional Area, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 109, No 10 (2015), Pagination: 1876-1878Abstract
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- Food for all in the Anthropocene Era
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 111, No 9 (2016), Pagination: 1435-1436Abstract
At the International Geological Congress held in August 2016 in Cape Town, the assembled scientists came to the conclusion that a new geological epoch - the anthropocene - needs to be recognized as the dawn of human influenced age (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-anthropocene-epoch-experts-urge-geological-congress-human-impact-earth).Full Text
- IARI Library Dedicated in the Name of Professor M. S. Swaminathan
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Third Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 110, No 12 (2016), Pagination: 2211-2211Abstract
One of the most befitting recognition and great tribute accorded to M. S. Swaminathan is to have dedicated the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi Library in his name on 29 April 2016. A large community of agricultural scientists, students, and in fact, the entire nation is pleased to refer to the famous IARI Library as Professor M. S. Swaminathan Library (Figure 1 a). His name will remain in the annals of Indian agriculture for a long time to come.Full Text
- Linear, No Threshold Model in Radiation Protection and Safety:Standards Thrive on 'Assumptions' and not on Science-Based Evidence
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 112, No 12 (2017), Pagination: 2349-2350Abstract
Lauriston Taylor in his 1980 Sievert Lecture (Health Phys., 1980, 39, 851-874) stated that 'some nonscientific influences prevail over scientific facts on radiation protection standards and practice'. This trend continues despite many low dose radiobiological data negating the linear, no threshold (LNT) hypothesis. More recently, Anthony D. Wrixon, a consultant to the Nuclear Energy Agency of OECD, IAEA, UNSCEAR wrote, 'Radiation protection is not "pure science"; it is based on science but also relies on assumptions that are necessary to the application of scientific knowledge to real life issues' (Radiat. Protect. Environ., 2016, 39, 117-121).Full Text
- Towards Health for All:Cost-Effective and Innovative Treatment of Diabetes Shows the Pathway
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 112, No 12 (2017), Pagination: 2379-2385Abstract
While the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) has been developing and refining ecofriendly and socially inclusive strategies to achieve a 'zero hunger' India, the 'Voluntary Health Service' (VHS) in the neighbourhood of MSSRF has been focusing on providing quality health care to patients who are too poor to get medical treatment as those with adequate means. On the food front, it is remarkable that India has implemented the 'Right to Food Act 2012' with homegrown food through scientific endeavours and accomplishments. The situation with health care and medical treatment is quite different with the drugs developed by multinational companies, their undesirable side-effects as well as their cost beyond the means of millions of Indians. Under these circumstances, particularly with regard to the treatment and management of both type-1 and type-2 diabetes, the TAG-VHS Chennai, has already made remarkable progress. Towards the goal of successful treatment and sustainable management of diabetes, the TAG-VHS has introduced cost-effective integrative system of medicines (ayurveda, dynamic acupuncture mediated metaphysical energy-healing therapies and limited use of relatively safer allopathic drugs). The validation of the effectiveness of various combinations and modalities of the systems of medicine is based on the 'treatment outcome' without adverse side effects. The limitations of randomized clinical trials are discussed with examples and scientific references. Even though TAG-VHS employs cost-effective treatment schedules, there is still the need for necessary financial base. In order to create this financial support base, it has also innovated a scheme called the 'Grand Health Ensurance' (GHE) that is a revolutionary, completely transparent and inclusive health ensuring model where the affordable persons pay 1% of their total income per annum which automatically covers Health Ensurance of 1-2 persons for 1 year. This paper discusses how the cost-effective, harmful sideeffects-free integrative systems of medicine coupled with GHE would provide a sustainable path to achieve the goal of 'health for all'.Keywords
Adverse Side Effects, Anti-Diabetic Drugs, Cost-Effective Treatment, Diabetes Type-1 and 2, Grand Health Ensurance Model, Health for all, TAG-Voluntary Health Service.Full Text
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- Bt Cotton and Integrated Pest Management
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Third Cross Road, Taramani Institutional Area, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 113, No 11 (2017), Pagination: 2057-2058Abstract
The essay by Komarlingam is a direct plea for integrated pest management (IPM) systems to rescue the muchacclaimed Bollgard II (Monsanto’s second-generation hybrid Bt cotton) from imminent collapse. It represents how a ‘top-down’, corporate-driven and much hyped technology was more akin to a ‘hatchet job’ on sustainable cotton farming. Bollgard II was introduced in 2006 because Bollgard I had become ineffective due to pest resistance. Now Bollgard II has also failed because the pink bollworm (PBW) has developed genetic shield (resistance) against it too. It is unlikely that modern biotechnologists would not have known that ‘selective pressure’ would continue to operate, no matter how many cry genes are stacked together; but the greed to make huge profits at the expense of resource-poor small and marginal cotton farmers, particularly in India, is overwhelming. Now, in order to save Bollgard II and the profits thereof, IPM is sought to be introduced.Full Text
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- Srivastava, S. K. and Kolady, D., Curr. Sci., 2016, 110(3), 311–319.
- Gutierrez, A. P., Ponti, L. and Baumgartner, J. U., Curr. Sci., 2017, 112(4), 690–693.
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- Science for Sustainable Agriculture to Achieve UN SDG Goal 2
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 114, No 08 (2018), Pagination: 1585-1586Abstract
From the beginning of 2018, UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become priority areas needing international and national attention and action. There are 17 goals, of which goal no. 2 reads as follows ‘End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture’. These goals are exceedingly important for our country in view of the widespread prevalence of undernutrition and malnutrition. Therefore, we should develop a scientific and social strategy to achieve these goals.Full Text
- Biofortified Crops to Combat Hidden Hunger
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 114, No 12 (2018), Pagination: 2417-2418Abstract
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day (8 March 2018), Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the National Nutrition Mission and Pan India Expansion of ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, covering all the 640 districts of the country. The National Nutrition Mission is timely in the context of widespread malnutrition prevailing in India. It is therefore important to accelerate our efforts in achieving a malnutrition-free India. This requires concurrent attention to three major types of hunger, viz. calorie deprivation, protein hunger and hidden hunger caused by the deficiency of micronutrients. It is equally important that agriculture, nutrition and health come together in a synergetic manner.Full Text
- Prakash Sarvotham Shetty (1943-2018)
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1 III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 115, No 7 (2018), Pagination: 1406-1407Abstract
Professor Prakash Shetty (PS), CEO of the Research Programme Consortium (RPC) on ‘Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA)’ (http ://www.lansasouthasiaorg) led by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), till recently, passed away in London on Monday, 3 September 2018, after fighting cancer for about seven years.Full Text
- Modern Technologies for Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Third Cross Street, Institutional Area, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Third Cross Street, Institutional Area, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 115, No 10 (2018), Pagination: 1876-1883Abstract
In the hierarchy of human needs, food is absolutely the most basic. As the human population was increasing at an accelerated rate with concomitant depletion of natural resources during the 18th century, Malthus was greatly concerned about the sustainability of food availability. Despite the fact that the human population has been burgeoning, a total collapse in food supply has not yet happened. This is because of new technologies emerging from time to time to boost agricultural productivity and preventing the onset of the Malthusian scourge. However, none of these technologies, including the Green Revolution of the 1960s, has been truly sustainable largely because of their adverse environmental and social impacts. It is expected that the Evergreen Revolution which eliminates the negative attributes of the Green Revolution would be more sustainable. Critical evaluation of the most modern technology, modern biotechnology, reveals that the Btand herbicide-tolerant-crops are highly unsustainable. In addition to causing environmental harm, these crops exhibit genotoxic effects. The original objective of reducing the need for application of chemical pesticides has also not been realized. There is need for basic research to understand the causes of ‘unintended effects’ associated with genetically engineered crops. It will be prudent to adhere to the recommendations of the Task Force on Agricultural Biotechnology, Government of India (2004) in the development and regulation of genetically engineered crops. These aspects are briefly discussed in this article.Keywords
Green to Evergreen Revolution, Modern Technologies, Nutrition Security, Sustainable Food.Full Text
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- Introduction to Sustainable Development
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Current Science, Vol 115, No 12 (2018), Pagination: 2330-2331Abstract
Writing a textbook on ‘sustainable development’ (SD) especially for the undergraduate students is a formidable challenge. Yet, the author, Martin J. Ossewaarde has made an extremely good beginning and he deserves much appreciation and credit. The challenge lies not only in its multidisciplinary character, but also in intricate interactions among its economic, ecological and social dimensions. With a decade of experience in teaching SD to undergraduate students, Ossewaarde has brought together all the essential elements of SD in this book.Full Text
- V. Santhanam (1925–2019)
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 117, No 1 (2019), Pagination: 149-149Abstract
Among the scientists who have made noteworthy contributions to cotton yield improvement through Mendelian breeding, late Dr V. Santhanam was unquestionably first among the equals. I first met Santhanam in 1959 while doing my Master’s degree in Genetics and Plant Breeding at the Madras Agriculture College and Post-graduate Institute, Coimbatore, where he was Reader. The faculty of the Post-graduate Institute including Santhanam held me in inexplicable kindness and affection, probably because I was the youngest and my father was a class/batchmate of several of them.Full Text
- Hormesis–An Exciting Field in Genetic Toxicology and Evolutionary Biology
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1 Formerly with School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Director, Bioscience Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, IN
1 Formerly with School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Director, Bioscience Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, IN
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Current Science, Vol 117, No 8 (2019), Pagination: 1259-1260Abstract
The term ‘hormesis’ describes the beneficial effects at low concentrations/doses of substances/agents which at higher doses are toxic/lethal. Hormesis means ‘to excite in small amounts’: Greek ‘Hormoligosis’. The effects seem to be largely physiological in nature at low concentrations/ doses; at higher doses the agents cause genotoxicity expressed as chromosomal aberrations, mutations, cancer and lethality. However, toxic effects noted at high doses cannot be anticipated by extrapolation of dosage. Agathokleous et al. (Environ. Res., 2018, 165, 274–278) observe that hormesis rewrites the history of toxicology. Hormesis was invariably encountered by genetic toxicologists working with physical and chemical genotoxic agents since 1974 when research on environmental mutagens gained momentum in several scientifically advanced countries including India. As early as 1975, scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai not only pioneered research in environmental mutagenesis, but also, supported initiation of research in this field in several universities. Many scientists recorded that several genotoxins at low doses/concentrations reduced the spontaneous level of adverse effects.Full Text
- Biodiversity Conservation for Agriculture, Nutrition and Health in an Era of Climate Change
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1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 116, No 4 (2019), Pagination: 524-525Abstract
At a time when it seemed that continued availability of biodiversity in general, and agro-biodiversity in particular was taken for granted, one of us (MSS) as early as January 1983 in his Presidential address at the 15th International Congress of Genetics1, held in New Delhi drew attention of the delegates to the importance of conservation of biodiversity of all organisms from ‘microbes to man’. More than fifty years ago, it had occurred only to a few geneticists that there would be no plant breeding at all, whether molecular or Mendelian, should all the wild progenitors and related species of the cultivated crops become extinct.Full Text
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- Genetic Modification Technology
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Current Science, Vol 117, No 9 (2019), Pagination: 1407-1409Abstract
The article by Datta et al.1 (henceforth referred to as 17 authors) states that it deals with negative perceptions of genetic modification technology in general, as also discussed in a recent review by Kesavan and Swaminathan2 (henceforth PCK–MSS paper). The latter publication provides concrete data and valid scientific references for most of the important statements, hence their criticisms are unfounded and invalid.Full Text
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- Virender Lal Chopra (1936–2020)
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1 Chennai 600 115, IN
1 Chennai 600 115, IN
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Current Science, Vol 118, No 11 (2020), Pagination: 1847-1848Abstract
Professor Virender Lal Chopra, an eminent agricultural geneticist and biotechnologist, passed away on 18 April 2020 at New Delhi. He was born on 9 August 1936 in Adhwal, a small village in the periphery of Rawalpindi in West Punjab that was part of British India. His father Harbans Lal and mother Sukhwanti moved to Delhi following partition of India in 1947 which also was the year of India’s independence. His schooling was at Ramjas School, Delhi.Full Text
- Low Dose Lung Radiotherapy – An Alternative Route to Treat Pneumonia Linked to Covid-19
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1 BARC, Mumbai and School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, IN
1 BARC, Mumbai and School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, IN
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Current Science, Vol 118, No 12 (2020), Pagination: 1863-1864Abstract
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- M. Srinivasan (1936–2020)
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1 Formerly at Safety Research and Health Physics Group, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603 102, IN
2 Formerly at Biosciences Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, IN
3 Energy Research Centre, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, US
1 Formerly at Safety Research and Health Physics Group, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603 102, IN
2 Formerly at Biosciences Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, IN
3 Energy Research Centre, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, US
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Current Science, Vol 119, No 7 (2020), Pagination: 1214-1215Abstract
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- V. Shanta (1927–2021)
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1 N-19, Maxworth Nagar, Kovilambakkam, Sunnambu Kolathur, Chennai 600 129, IN
2 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
1 N-19, Maxworth Nagar, Kovilambakkam, Sunnambu Kolathur, Chennai 600 129, IN
2 M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, IN
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Current Science, Vol 120, No 5 (2021), Pagination: 953-954Abstract
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