Ways to weed parthenium out

Parthenium, a notorious weed, first sneaked into the country along with wheat grains imported from the us in the early 1950s. It has become a …

Monsanto loses wheat patent

Rounded up

Monsanto folds up its GM wheat, for the time being

Why is it special

Crucial wheat genes identified

Survival instinct

A fungus breeds sexually to infect resistant wheat crops  

What 3,000-year-old Egyptian wheat tells us about the genetics of our daily bread

Researchers sequenced the genome of a 3,000-year-old sample of Egyptian emmer wheat; Comparisons with modern samples suggest a story of how the …

Bush sells wheat

Super harvest

New wheat variety

Ozone stress

Wheat yield in danger

Struck by higher costs, Punjab farmers wait to burn stubble; fire incidences likely to flare up

At least 5,772 incidents of stubble fire have been registered in Punjab till October 22 alone

Government sees record food grains output in 2016-17; doubts over claims remain

Despite importing wheat and pulses, government claims production of these grains will surpass previous record

From the blurbs

Brown revolution

Farm pacts

Wheat wave

Hardy wheat

Egypt's first GM crop

Patent mess

Wheat's the problem

Grain drain

Wheat stocks exhausted; India may import the grain

Sold out

Bright futures

Punjab farmers can get higher wheat prices now

Wheat Bluff

Why everyone's critical of import

In search of the palatable atta

An agricultural scientist discovers why some rotis are tastier than others

Wheat varieties susceptible to new strains of yellow rust fungus: study

This infection is capable of causing up to 70 per cent decline in wheat yields

Competing with wheat

Human-made triticale is nutritionally superior to wheat and could become a major foodcrop in the lower Himalayan region