Test crop washed away

Speedy information

High-yield Heera

Cash starved

Hybrid gains

A rice hybrid developed in India can help reap an extra Rs 2,500 per ha

Blooming deserts

Baking secrets

Fighting fungi

Eating easy

INDIA

Super sensors

United Nations

Kalanamak

The future of Indian scented rice?

Equal rights

The largest collection of germplasm in the world will be handed over to the Food and Agriculture Organisation to ensure equal accessibility

Government attention sets pulses spinning

Pulse production in India is touching an all-time high, but the benefits are reaching only a few because most farmers are ignorant about the new, …

Biotech-engineered rice has few takers

Despite advancements, research programmes in rice biotechnology heve drawn lukewarm response because it is felt that there is little money to be …

Neem gains honour as India's wonder tree

Known in ancient India as a tree with many wondrous properties, the neem tree is slowly drawing the attention of the country's scientific and …

How green was the revolution

The Green Revolution Reconsidered: The Impact of High Yielding Rice Varieties in South India Peter B R Hazell and C Ramaswamy Oxford University …

A whiff of death

Researchers are now trying to develop natural weapons to scare off pests by studying the olfactory mechanism of plants that emit odours when …

Never say die

Farmers and agricultural scientists in Australia are having a tough time battling a weed that has suddenly developed resistance to a herbicide

Water wise

Salt-tolerant durum wheat grown using plant’s ancestors

Breather for crops

How growstones keep substrates more fertile in greenhouses

Stubborn rust

Scientists decode rust fungus genome that risks world’s crops

Pest-resistant maize

Going bananas

New genetic techniques to introduce disease-resistance and other traits in banana plants