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From wheat to web: Children of the revolution

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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Daemon Fairless is this year's winner of the IDRC-Nature fellowship. This article is part of the Global Theme on Poverty and Human Development, organized by the Council of Science Editors. All articles from the Nature Publishing Group are available free at http://www.nature.com/povhumdev The content from all participating journals can be found at http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/globalthemeissue.cfm

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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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