Raquel Chan, the renowned Argentine scientist who created drought-tolerant seeds: ‘GMOs have become a dirty word’
26 May 2026 at 20:49
Climate change is setting the stage for increasingly extreme phenomena that present challenges to agriculture. In the Argentine city of Santa Fe, researcher Raquel Lía Chan, 66, created GMO seeds designed to combat one of the countryside’s greatest threats: drought.

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