Safe storage

Using a little turmeric powder mixed with rice can protect the stored grain from pests

Web of protection

By devouring pests, spiders prove to be particularly useful to crops

Super rice

Drying device

Dyeing drylands

Two-in-one

Sunshine tomatoes

Bamboo boom

The cultivation of the grass is now less cumbersome

Smart crops

Genetically engineered crops would bloom and produce pesticides for self defence only

Clone forests

Newly developed clones of eucalyptus may help increase forest areas in Kerala

Grain gains

Rice and easy

Herbicide resistance

Clothing the drylands

A pod protecting seeds may be all it takes to make deserts green

Cloning trees

Super-high yield

Frog helps potato

Leap over disease

Rice with a human touch

Resistant to 13 herbicides

Quantity mars quality

Nutrient value of fruits and vegetables is falling

A software to manage weed

An open source programme to help farmers

Return of the blight?

A new aggressive strain ofpotato blight has started spreading in Europe and threatens crops across the world

Deep-rooted gains

Intercropping soybean with sugar cane not only is more profitable but also benefits the latter crop

Genesis

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

Rice bowls shall brim

A new and healthier version of rice promises to produce and provide more for Asia's teeming millions

Thriving on bad air

The growth of plants could be seriously changed if they are exposed to high levels of carbon dioxide