Best way to check arsenic residues in rice

Pesticide guard

Plant hormone can protect rice from toxic effects of chemicals

Poor soil, global warming

The downside of using combine harvesters

Organic drive in Uttaranchal ignores farmers' concerns

Rice fields as carbon sinks

A study by Indian scientists finds lowland flooded rice ecosystems can store vast amounts of carbon but the jury is still out on whether these …

Lowland rice is a carbon sink

Pratap Bhattacharyya, senior scientist at the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) in Odisha, along with his team at the institute, says rice …

Toxic harvest

Eating rice grown in arsenic-contaminated water can damage genes

Flood resistance rice comes to rescue

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Solving poverty

Gurdev S Khush is the principal plant breeder in the Plant breeding, genetics and biochemistry division of the International Rice Research …

Punjab's depleting groundwater stagnates agricultural growth

Bangladesh wants hybrid paddy, experts wary

Weighty task

It is not easy to measure nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, emitted from Indian farms

Chhattisgarh proactive in checking illegal BT rice trials

UN body sets limit on arsenic levels in rice

Codex Commission to develop a new code of practice to help countries comply with the standard

How useful is genome decoding?

Scientists decode pigeon pea at the cost of Rs 11 crore  

PDS protests in West Bengal

India's strategies for rice congress

India's notification on Superbasmati raises eyebrows in Pakistan

SOUTH ASIA

US biotech to plant GM rice with human genes

Maharashtra approves field trials of GM food crops

Only GM cotton is grown in fields in India as of now

Mark of distinction

Genetic marker for authenticating Darjeeling tea

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The many ways of GM contamination

Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist in the food and environment programme at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), is among the most …