Mighty millet

A new pearl millet variety resistant to downy mildew disease

Spirit of videshi

By turning our backs on swadeshi, we have left cotton farmers in the lurch

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Crop cover insurance

Satellite images used differently

Animal rights activists jailed in UK

The asexual drive

A moving target

Don't panic, bang the walls

New technology pinpoints location of trapped miners faster

Friends for rice

Third generation of a benign fungus could boost yield

Coronavirus: The pandemic is changing our brains – here are the remedies

Research suggests that the novel coronavirus may gain access to the brain via the forebrain’s olfactory bulb

Revolutionary potatoes

Recently developed hybrid true potato seeds are ideally suited to subtropical climates and are highly disease-resistant

Creating a family tree for rice

Scientists at the National Chemical Laboratory are working on rice biotechnology in order to develop more nutritious varieties of the cereal.

Gene transfer yields pest-resisting rice strain

Darshan S Brar, who has been working for years on rice hybrids at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, talks about gene …

A lot of gas

An Indian scientists has challenged the estimates of methane -- a greenhouse gas -- produced from paddy fields

Shoot to protect

With the creation of a new variety of rice plant which is resistant to bacterial leaf blight, genetic engineering has once again made one of …

Neptune factor

Scientists discover "chimneys" on the sea floor, hope to get an insight into how the ecosystem works

Trouble over the Taj Mahal

NEERI submitted a report on the effect of air pollution on the Taj Mahal which was questioned by the Centre for Science and Environment. What …

The revival of indigo

A school principal in Bihar revives the cultivation of the crop that symbolised the independence struggle

Will an amended Seeds Act make industry accountable?

The Union ministry of agriculture has moved an amendment to the Seeds Act, 1966, and also proposes to create a National Seeds Grid. While the aim …

Research is not magic solutions take a long time

S K SINHA, former director of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), is currently a National Professor at the Water Technology …

One person's weed, another's medicinal plant

Rajasthan ignores seed advice

It distributed Monsanto’s hybrid maize seeds that were not recommended for the state

Indian scientists return with rare plant samples from Arctic

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Sniffing around flatus for cures

Scientists look for innovative ways to analyse flatus gases to understand gut health