Vikas Sharma, Nancy Vohra [email protected] Solanum nigrum also known as black nightshade in local dialects of Jammu and ...

An international research collaboration, including INRAE, has published the complete set of genes (pangenome) and agronomic ...

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KOCHI: While most farmers in the state endure a life of debt, penury and exploitation, here is a farmer who says he has earned everything in life through agriculture. P A Varghese, a resident of ...

Dear Master Gardener: The leaves of my spider plant are a sickly pale green. I have it near a south window. Is it getting too much light? Answer: There are several reasons why a spider plant loses its ...

A gardener has described his delight that his rare plant has flowered after a quarter of a century. Tony Kennington, 78, who lives in Hartford, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, said he was given the agave ...

North America has 15 types of hummingbirds that visit on a regular basis and nearly a dozen others that drop by on occasion. The most common of these enchanting creatures is the ruby-throated ...

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