Leo D’Souza, Mangaluru’s Mendel who worked to transform cashew industry

Leo D’Souza, Mangaluru’s Mendel who worked to transform cashew industry
Fr Leo built one of India’s earliest plant tissue culture labs and helped crack cashew micropropagation, including a test-tube cashew tree that made it to the soil; he leaves behind a rare Jesuit legacy that fused rigorous science with public purpose, shaping women scientists and vulnerable lives alike