Time for flowers

Scientists are catching up with the biological clock in plants

Heat proof

Genes and means

DNA exchange between plant species aided by their parasites

The debate continues

Are genetically modified organisms good or bad? The debate continues and more and more people are getting involved on both sides

RNAs online

Scientists discover how molecules travel along a veritable 'information superhighway' inside plants

Follow up

Knowing the plant

Hybrids of eucalyptus

"We are close to crisis point"

Agriculture and its subsequent effect on the environment, rapidly depleting natural resources like arable land and water, the slackening of the …

Choking the gene pool

Maya of Indian Science

Lies, denial and outright fraud have become the hallmark of Indian agricultural research because there is no accountability

Legally modified

Government plans for GM food labelling in India

Private sector is profiting from vacuum left by ICAR

In the agriculture research hierarchy, Swapan Kumar Datta occupies the second rung, one of eight deputy director generals (DDGs) in the Indian …

Pursuing a nationalist IPR policy

India has enough laws to protect its intellectual property rights. It is the implementation that is wanting

Natural cotton gets brown hue

Indian scientists develop a variety of coloured cotton, characterised by stability of lint colour, spinnable fibre quality and a fairly good yield

UN heritage status for Odisha's Koraput farming system

Indigenous knowledge and farming practices of the region's tribal people recognised for promoting food security and conserving biodiversity

Dealing with crop stresses and scandals

Subbanna Ayyappan has made history in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (IACR) by becoming the first non-crop scientist to head this …