Scientists at Washington State University and China Jiliang University have discovered that the quality of the host rice plant determines whether the brown planthopper, a major pest on rice in ...

It's called durian pizza, made with the unmistakably pungent -- some would some revolting -- spiky greenish-brown fruit known as "the King of Fruits." The basketball-sized durian was memorably ...

While the farmers in Tiruvannamalai are yet to recover from the loss caused due to the outbreak of brown planthopper disease ( pugaiyan) in the last Navarai season, paddy crops in about 500 acres ...