Cultured to propagate

Tissue culture helps scientists protect endangered flora

Damnation abounds

Warm and uncomfortable

Altered habitats caused by increasing temperatures are threatening penguins in Antarctica

Lost wonder

The world has lost one-third of its natural wealth in 25 years, says a WWF report

Island of treasure

INDIA

Phillipines

Farmer's right

A new draft of the Union for Protection of New Plants Varieties protects the rights of the farmers

UNDER THREAT

Origin of beauty

All flora species are offspring of fragile water plants

Encyclopaedia of natural world

Review of 'Trees of Delhi', a book by Pradip Krishen

Book>>Trees of Delhi A Field Guide by Pradip Krishen Penguin Books India>> Dorling Kindersley 2006

Spring in winter

Night blooms

Plants change flowering traits to mark friend from foe  

Genetic theft by Kew botanists

An ongoing debate in the UK questions the ethics behind the acquisition by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew of acquiring tropical plants through …

Troubled botanists

Biodiversity under threat worldwide

Marigold magic

An insecticide obtained from marigold flowers is effective against mosquito larvae

Protests galore

Activists protest against mindless development in Uttara Kannada district

In the safety net

Notch in the mountains

HIMALAYAN BIODIVERSITY-ACTION PLAN·Edited by Uppeandra Dhar·Himvikas Publication No. 10, published for the G B Pant Institute of …

Spy vs spy

The war of wits that goes on between plants and viruses

RNAs online

Scientists discover how molecules travel along a veritable 'information superhighway' inside plants

Home remedy

Tanzania