From Taipei Times
Metahelix Life Sciences, a biotech firm founded by five Indian scientists in 2001, says it is doing research that may lead to the development of insect-protected rice and high-yield corn.

Avesthagen, which like Metahelix is based in the city of Bangalore, is working to devise better-yielding oilseeds and improve the tolerance of food crops to drought and salinity.

But a breakthrough is eluding a US$2 billion biotechnology industry struggling to replicate the success of BT cotton, which helped turn India into a net cotton exporter from a net importer in four years.

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