In February, during the flowering time of black cumin (Nigella sativa), beekeeper Pavel Hossen set up an apiary on leased ...

Despite the controversies generated by those who opposed the genetically modified Pod Borer Resistant cowpea, Bt. Cotton and the Tela maize, farmers who cultivated and consumed the crops in the last ...

The authors' demonstration that impaired olfactory perception reduces caterpillar performance and increases susceptibility to parasitism is solid. These findings highlight the ecological significance ...

Among cereals, three crops namely maize, wheat, and rice account for 90% of the total cereal production, with global production levels of 791.2, 522.6, and 1229.63 million tons for wheat, rice and ...

This research, "Microbiota transplantation for cotton leaf curl disease suppression—core microbiome and transcriptome dynamics," published in Communications Biology, focuses on transferring ...

Today, Arizona growers plant as many acres of cotton as their relatives did in 1914, when there were no mechanical pickers, and when the crop was enshrined for its economic promise. Yet cotton fields ...

In recent years, whiteflies and pink bollworms have wreaked havoc on the cotton crop in North India. Cotton yields are down, as is the area under cotton cultivation — the crop was cultivated in only ...