Annually, the cost of insect pest control in agriculture crosses billions of dollars around the
world. Until recently, broad-spectrum synthetic pesticides were considered as the most …

Global crop yield and food security are being threatened by phytophagous insects.
Innovative methods are required to increase agricultural output while reducing reliance on …

Phytophagous insect incidence is a serious threat for reduction of crop productivity globally.
There is an estimation of one fourth of crop is being destroyed by insects annually. Indeed …

Sugarcane borer is the most common and harmful pest in Chinese sugarcane fields, and
can cause damage to the whole plant during the entire growing season. To improve borer …

Chemical-based peticides are having negative impacts on both the healths of human beings
and plants as well. The World Health Organisation (WHO), reported that each year,> 25 …

Global agricultural production must quadruple by 2050 to fulfil the needs of a growing global
population, but climate change exacerbates the difficulty. Cereals are a very important …

Resistance breeding programs resulted in the successful development of rice cultivars
expressing resistance to major insect pests of rice. However, the conventional breeding …

The global population is increasing by 83 million annually and is expected to cross 8.6
billion by the year 2030. To cope with this alarming situation and to feed the teeming …

The oviposition of gravid female moths of rice leaffolder, Cnaphalocrosis medinalis Guenee
(Pyralidae: Lepidoptera) correlates with the host plant's fitness for their offspring …

The present investigation was carried out to standardize the age of callus (days),
acetosyringone concentration (µM) and acetosyringone incubation period (min) prior to …