"Nitrogen enrichment is pushing us towards a weedier world,' says David Wedin of the University of Toronto, Canada. Burning fossil fuel releases nitrogen oxides, which ecologists believe could act as

Farmers and agricultural scientists in Australia are having a tough time battling a weed that has suddenly developed resistance to a herbicide

An obnoxious weed is turned into much needed compost for raising plants in a nursery

Pollen from transgenic crops is now known to have a much wider reach. This could spell disaster as the control of these resistant varieties turned weeds promises to be a tough job

Weeds are more often a nuisance., and so was the case with Banmara or Eupatorium adenophorum which was the bane of farmers in the eastern Himalaya and Uttar Pradesh. Shunned even by

A motorised device to uproot weeds

As the Gujarat forest department persists in planting a weed that sucks dry all the water in its vicinity, the Little Rann of Kutch gets...

Two of the country's most widespread weeds, Parthenium (Congress grass) and water hyacinth, will be used to produce petroleum-based chemicals. The National Environmental Engineering Research

The suspicion that the exotic Mexican beetle (Zigogramma bicolorata) may be causing more harm than good has been confirmed by the Union agriculture ministry. The ministry's plant protection adviser,

Scientists fear the Mexican beetle, introduced to counter the adverse effects of a weed, may destroy the sunflower crop.

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