HYBRID PADDY

ALL SEASON MANGO

Hybrids of eucalyptus

Cautious assertion

Original knock out

Cellular system to silence genes found

No identity crisis

Making sunlight liquid – a brief history of sunflowers

If we continue to adapt sunflowers to our needs as climates change, we must ensure diverse genes are conserved for future generations 

Cage the abusers

In battery cages, egg-laying hens are suffocated, debeaked and injected with antibiotics. Their only hope lies with the Delhi High Court, which …

Equal rights

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

Dal hybrid beneficial but costly

The hybridisation of tur dal has made it higher-yielding and less vulnerable to disease. But only rich farmers will be able to buy the seeds.

Officials shed crocodile tears

Crocodiles today abound in captive breeding centres in India. But the government still applies to them a protection law that was relevant two …

Sexual distinction

A new technique enables the determination of the sex of cattle and goats at the embryonic stage

Flowery woes

The crisis of pollination assumes greater significance in the face of declining numbers of species which act as useful pollinators

Who will play Cupid?

Pollinators, small insects like bees and butterflies, animals like bats and small birds such as the hummingbird, play a big role in helping …

Breather for crops

How growstones keep substrates more fertile in greenhouses

Tahr breeding season

The asexual drive

How temperature & rainfall are complicating Africa’s fight against malaria

Six countries — Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Mozambique, Angola and Burkina Faso — accounted for about 55% …

Scientists develop bio-fortified maize to address ‘hidden hunger’

The new hybrids have 4.5 folds more vitamin A content and similar amounts of lysine and tryptophan as earlier varieties

Domesti(cat)ed?

Domestic cat gives birth to a wild one, raises hopes of bringing back extinct species

THAILAND

Wild disruption

Even low concentrations of pollutants can alter animal behaviour

Appearances can be deceptive

Abscisic acids stressful tactics

Scientists figure out how to make plants drought-resistant

Go wild

Ashwagandha that grows in the wild fights illness better