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Swapan Kumar Datta - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Swapan Kumar Datta
- Swapan Kumar Datta (born 28 January 1953) is a well known scientist (Professor) of rice biotechnology.
- He is well known for his pioneering research on genetic engineering of Indica rice.
- Dr.
- Datta has demonstrated the development of genetically engineered Indica rice from protoplast derived from haploid embryogenic cell suspension culture.
- Golden Indica Rice with enriched Provitamin A and Ferritin rice with high iron content were developed by his group with a vision to meet the challenges of malnutrition in developing countries.
- Prof.
- Swapan Datta has been named as one among the top 25 Indian scientists from all fields of science by India Today.Currently, Prof.
- Datta is working as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Visva-Bharati University (a Central University founded by the great Rabindranath Tagore), Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.
- Before taking the present responsibility from 31.01.2015, he was positioned as Deputy Director General (DDG-Crop Science) in Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi.
- He is also currently holding the position Sir Rash Behari Ghosh Chair Professor (on lien) at Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
