Brazilian farmers in the state of Rio Grande do Sul were recently confronted by the prickly issue of genetically modified (gm) crops. Although the commercial planting of gm crops is officially

the more virulent the pathogen, the less fertile it is, Australian scientists have discovered, showing that there is often a genetic trade-off between ferocity and fecundity in fungi that infect

On November 10, 2002, people wearing Bollgard caps visited cotton farmer R Narsimha Reddy at his home in Aleru, a village in Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh. Bollgard cotton Bt cotton is Monsanto s proprietary gene technology developed to defend the pest pro