TweetThe Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, today on 20th February 2014 (Thursday) has approved a proposal of the Ministry of Environment and Forests for a National Mission for a Green India (GIM)…
TweetA meta analysis done by a group of scientists reported that organic farming increased species richness by about 30%. Their analysis affirms that organic farming usually has large positive effects…
TweetPlant Scientists from UK have studied the economic and physical determinants of the global distribution of crop pests and pathogens. The full report has been published online in New Phytologist…
TweetThe President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the World Congress on Agro-forestry, today (February 10, 2014) at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. Speaking on the occasion, the President said…
TweetPic Courtesy: Solanaceae Co-ordinated Agri ProjectScientists from Nanjing Agricultural University of China have cloned and characterized a potato StAN11 gene involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis…
TweetPrime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh while inaugurating 101th Indian Science Congress in Jammu said Government must focus on creating new opportunities for our bright and socially conscious…
TweetThe Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board would be conducting National Eligibility Test (NET)-2014(I) in Online Examination mode from 26.03.2014 – 04.04.2014 staggered over various…
Tweet Jharkhand based Non Government Organisation, Centre for Social and Environmental Research (CSER) , on 14th January 2014 announced the publication of a research journal ‘The Biobrio- An…
TweetEmbryogenesis in plants starts once the fertilization takes place and covers upto the start of dormancy. In recent past there have been lot of developments to understand embryo development in…
TweetIndia is considered as one of the largest reserves of Bamboos in the world. (Naithani, 2008) reveal 20 genera with their 115 species of Bamboo in India. Found in the forests of almost all the…