Plant Biotech Blog

Professor Chavali Kameswara Rao has over 40 years of academic experience in botanical sciences, particularly agricultural botany, plant diversity, databases of medicinal plants and computer applications.  He was the Chairman of the Department of Botany, and the Department of Sericulture at the Bangalore University in Bangalore, India. Since January 2001 Professor Kameswara Rao has been the Executive Secretary of the Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education (FBAE), Bangalore, working to enhance public awareness and raise standards of education and training, in biotechnology.

The hope, the hype and the vehement opposition modern biotechnology has generated is immense.  The diverse and often conflicting views that appear in the media leave the general public in a state of confusion. There is a clear need to disseminate factual science based information that facilitates informed decisions on the acceptance or rejection of the products and services biotechnology endlessly offers.  Conscious of this situation, Professor Kameswara Rao has written numerous articles to provide analyses and views on various issues of modern agricultural biotechnology as an information portal to serve the needs of a wide range of audiences.

You can reach Professor Rao at pbtkrao@gmail.com