With climate change posing a serious challenge to biodiversity, all living organisms need either adaptation or annihilation, V. Shakeela, Director, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), has said.
Handling a session on ‘Mainstreaming agrobiodiversity in changing climatic conditions and pandemic situations’ here on Friday. Dr. Shakeela said in-situ conservation of seeds was the need of the hour, since farmers were experimenting with seeds in the modifying climatic conditions, and it would be the best of seeds.
