: Fundamentals of genetics, plant breeding, biotechnology, plant pathology, and entomology.
Years later, after planting a tree for each successful season, Muniraj walked the terrace paths with his granddaughter. She pointed to a patch of millet and asked about the seed’s memory. He crouched, letting the wind lift a hairline of dust.
He unrolled a sheet of paper and placed a seed on it: a pearl millet kernel, dust-fine with promise. “This seed remembers rain,” he told them, voice low but steady. “But it also remembers how we treat the soil.”