WHEN, in 1859, Darwin's “Origin of Species” first saw the light, naturalists were astonished at the large number and variety of illustrations the author derived from cultivated plants. This feeling ...

During the programme, which was inaugurated by ICAR AP Centre Head Dr Doni Jini, Dr Manoj Kumar emphasised the significance of crop diversification by including cultivation of millets and green gram ...

Plant mutation breeding, also called variation breeding, is a method that uses physical radiation or chemical means to induce spontaneous genetic variation in plants to develop new crop varieties.

A team of scientists led by a horticulture professor who leads a pome fruit (apples and pears) breeding program, found that public plant breeding programs are seeing decreases in funding and personnel ...

With populations growing rapidly, particularly in Asia and the Pacific, farmers and scientists are all the more drawing on the benefits of using irradiation to develop new crop varieties and meet ...