Blooming deserts

Trail of danger

Baking secrets

Fighting fungi

Eating easy

PELINDABA ACCORD

Nuclear capacity

Mingled evolution

Researchers try' to uncover the role of diseases and disease-causing organisms in evolution

Genetically high

INDIA

Super sensors

United Nations

The other side of matter

Scientists produce antimatter to put the Big bang theory under the scrutiny

Kalanamak

The future of Indian scented rice?

Off to Canada

Punjab's richest farmers

Handling a pest, gingerly

Modus operandi of bacterial wilt uncovered

Revised menu

India looks to open agriculture to US corporates

Colour catch

Fishery forecasts based on ocean colour can quadruple profits

Fresh spectre of nuclear anarchy

Increasing incidents of smuggling weapons-grade nuclear material have explosive global ramifications

Equal rights

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

Government attention sets pulses spinning

Pulse production in India is touching an all-time high, but the benefits are reaching only a few because most farmers are ignorant about the new, …

Biotech-engineered rice has few takers

Despite advancements, research programmes in rice biotechnology heve drawn lukewarm response because it is felt that there is little money to be …

Neem gains honour as India's wonder tree

Known in ancient India as a tree with many wondrous properties, the neem tree is slowly drawing the attention of the country's scientific and …

How green was the revolution

The Green Revolution Reconsidered: The Impact of High Yielding Rice Varieties in South India Peter B R Hazell and C Ramaswamy Oxford University …

A whiff of death

Researchers are now trying to develop natural weapons to scare off pests by studying the olfactory mechanism of plants that emit odours when …