scented basmati rice is the contribution of

1. Dr. Borlaug
2. Dr. B.P. Paul
3. Dr. M.S. Swaminathan
4. Dr. A.K. Singh

Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (born 7 August 1925) is an Indian geneticist and international administrator, renowned for his leading role in India's "Green Revolution," a program under which high-yield varieties of wheat and rice seedlings were planted in the fields of poor farmers.