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Is the party over for genetically modified crops? Some scientists are afraid it might be. But molecular biologist Richard Jefferson thinks the GM revolution is only just warming up. Jefferson heads CAMBIA, a non-profit plant biotechnology research centre in Canberra. Thirteen years after conducting the world’s first release of a transgenic food crop, Jefferson, 44, is turning conventional ideas about plant genetics on their head. For instance, he says you can get top-quality GM crops without introducing foreign genes into plants. Or, wait for it, that sequencing genes of plants like rice or maize is a waste of time. Ehsan…