GMs renegade genes

Ecological costs of a GM plant are higher than benefits

Fall Armyworms affect 750,000 acres of maize in Africa, put food security at threat

It may take more than two years before hybrids resistant to the FAW are bred and commercialised in Africa

Under attack

Coming soon: a wheat disease from West Asia

The fall of the golden spice

New centre to help farmers become climate resilient

The centre would focus on real-time structured surveillance for insect-pests and diseases using GPS-tagging techniques

Mystery disease hits Bastar's fishtail palm

What drives pesticide use

Study says land simplification has no link to use of pesticide

Recycled paper-based compost may fight plant diseases

Anti-greening measures

Easy method to detect bacterial infection in citrus varieties

The catcher in the gene

Evidence finally links phytoplasmas to root wilt disease in coconut trees

Climate change impact on agriculture leads to 1.5 per cent loss in India’s GDP

By 2030, rice and wheat are likely to see about 6-10 per cent decrease in yields

Bananas in danger

Saving papaya

Between fungi

India gets ready for banana war

A fungus that threatens popular Cavendish bananas traced in the country

Punjab takes precautions for mealy bug attack

Pests ruin paddy on 89,000 ha

Warm winter may affect crops

New global standard adopted for making trade in plants and seeds safer

There is an increasing risk that pests carried by seeds could establish themselves and spread after planting

The lull sets in

Scientists warn that conditions are favourable for another sal borer epidemic. State forest departments are unprepared

Smart crops

The ill effects

Warming climate spawns disease epidemics

Pestilential high tech

Wheaticide

Herbicide promotes toxic fungi