Mushroom magic

In a recent breakthrough, an Indian mushroom has been found to be extremely effective in controlling heavy metal pollution

Boom time for lab bloomers

India hopes to earn Rs 200 crore every year exporting flowers mass produced in laboratories

Tomato decoded

Gene analysis shows how it got its size and flavour

Sticking to tamarind

The nutty enricher

Benign banana

Rubber alternative

Meeting rising demand

Potato detector

Super rice

Saline succour

Plants of Salicornia species thrive in saline soils and can feed humans, animals and industry

FLOODED RICE

Oilseed bonanza

Indian markets may soon be flooded with high-yielding hybrid seeds of mustard and rapeseed

CENTRAL AFRICA

Dyeing drylands

Two-in-one

Sunshine tomatoes

Bamboo boom

The cultivation of the grass is now less cumbersome

Safe and profitable

Beneficial feat

GM groundnut on the anvil

Competing with wheat

Human-made triticale is nutritionally superior to wheat and could become a major foodcrop in the lower Himalayan region

Tissue-culture technology facilitates to hike yeild of tasty coconut

The tasty, popular coconut species of Thailand, kati, could not be produced in large scale because it is infertile. But scientists have now found …

Polly can't get at this wheat

Some wheat hybrids developed in India's agricultural universities are exceptionally good at keeping birds away

Defeat starvation

Sub-Saharan Africa is on the brink of starvation. In spite of efforts made by the government and private organisations, the agricultural scene …

Genesis

Over thirty years of continuous research later, scientists report the outcome of a hybrid wheat, which is billed to substitute the available …