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 …

Never say die

Farmers and agricultural scientists in Australia are having a tough time battling a weed that has suddenly developed resistance to a herbicide

Wheat rusts no more

Breather for crops

How growstones keep substrates more fertile in greenhouses

Water wise

Salt-tolerant durum wheat grown using plant’s ancestors

Stubborn rust

Scientists decode rust fungus genome that risks world’s crops

Pest-resistant maize

Going bananas

New genetic techniques to introduce disease-resistance and other traits in banana plants

Adding life to spice

Sweet advice

Growth aid

Using urea

More space for soyabeans

A recent find raises hope for further space invasion

Rice row

US eyeing patent on Thai jasmine rice?

Another problem

Bamboo bonanza

Cheap method to multiply non-seeding species

Science crucified

A recent meet combats the anti-science wave in Europe

Organic triumph

Over conventional farming

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

Crop cover insurance

Satellite images used differently

The asexual drive

A moving target

Friends for rice

Third generation of a benign fungus could boost yield