The productivity of pulses is generally low in most developing countries, average yields ranging from about 0.5 to a little over 1 tonne per ha. Yields are reduced further by the incidence of several ...

Hyderabad, Jan. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Across major cereal crops, increasing the yield remains a focus for product development. However, the route to achieving increased yield has changed ...

But the occurrence of biotic stresses (diseases – viruses, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, pests and weeds) coupled with abiotic stresses (drought, submergence, salinity, heat, cold and heavy metals ...

“Some 70 per cent of crop losses are due to abiotic stress such as cold, drought, heat, waterlogging, salinity and so on, while 10 per cent are due to biotic stress such as plant diseases and ...

Horticultural crops, including fruits, vegetables, ornamentals, medicinal plants etc., are highly sensitive to environmental ...

A review of gene editing techniques suggests that the CRISPR/Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/Cas) method could be a possible ‘saviour’ for rice crops threatened ...

With the introduction of ASM, Acadian Plant Health demonstrates its commitment to advancing climate-smart, resilient, and regenerative agriculture through science-backed biostimulant crop inputs.

The IARI has been working on climate-resilient seeds since 2014. Currently, it is testing 2,380 varieties of field crops and 487 varieties of horticulture crops, ThePrint has learnt.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday released 109 high-yielding, climate-resilient and biofortified varieties of 61 crops, including 34 field crops and 27 horticultural crops, and ...

Ecologists use biotic and abiotic factors to predict population changes and ecological events. By investigating how these factors interact, ecologists can gauge what is happening in an ecosystem ...

Dr. Avtar Handa has received a $100,000 grant from the Agricultural Research Service for his research on the Identification and regulation of Critical Transcriptional Regulators under Biotic and ...