Untangling India’s Bt cotton fraud

ICAR’s top research institutes and GEAC exposed in Bt cotton research scam

Wheat rust fear looms large over south Asia

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Food crisis grips Bangladesh after flood and cyclone Sidr

Punjab's depleting groundwater stagnates agricultural growth

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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 …

Scientifically invalid

Inter-Academy update on GM crops does little to redeem Indian science

Bangladesh wants hybrid paddy, experts wary

A plant breeder comes into his own

Awards are finally coming to K Vinod Prabhu, 54, a plant breeder, for his work on building resistance in wheat, mustard and rice through the …

How useful is genome decoding?

Scientists decode pigeon pea at the cost of Rs 11 crore  

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Fruitful deliberations

Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy

Say cheese to Brussels

Supa dam displaced lease out lands to paper mill

US biotech to plant GM rice with human genes

Saving rice

Rice is at the heart of a fierce strategy debate as the country prepares to launch the second Green Revolution in the eastern states. …

South Asia

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