M. S. Swaminathan transformed agriculture in India in the 1960s. Now Daemon Fairless finds him at the heart of another high-tech scheme to help the rural poor.
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Fairless, D. From wheat to web: Children of the revolution. Nature 449, 964–966 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449964a
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