Action taken report by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board on the operation of 9 cold storages in tehsil Sadabad, Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh. During the visit, one of the cold storage units was not in operational condition and found closed. The other 8 cold storage facilities were found …
The humble potato is now being billed as a super tuber that could have broad implications for the world's food supply. Researchers, led by Carlos Arbizu at the International Potato Centre in Lima, believe that the root has a great potential to serve as a world food, considering its nutritional …
GENETICALLY engineered potatoes that produce their own insecticide may soon hit supermarkets in the us. The special bug killing spud has been produced by incorporating a gene from a bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis that-produces a pesticide called Bt, into the potato plant. Incorporating the gene for Bt into a potato …
RESEARCHERs at the International Potato Centre's regional division in Delhi have designed an on-farm facility for storing potatoes throughout the summer months. Dubbed the "rustic, evaporative cooled store", this indigenous refrigerator is made of easily available materials - bricks, sand, mud, straw and bamboo or sticks. The new storage facility …
SCIENTISTS at the International Potato Centre's (CIP) regional division in Delhi have designed an on-farm facility for storing potatoes through the summer months, which is as good as a refrigerated store, and cheaper by far. Called the rustic evaporative cooled store, it is made of easily available material -- bricks, …
TWO RESEARCHERS have produced genetically altered potato tissue that can detect compounds like alcohol and drug products in body fluids. Garry Rechnitz and Ae-June Wang of the University of Hawaii in Manoa say the tissue contains an enzyme that produces a fluorescent product when exposed to the target molecule (New …
DID AKBAR, the great Moghul (1556-1605), relish dam aalu? Probably not, especially as one doesn't have firm evidence he did. The record kept by his minister, Abul Fazl, of crops grown in India in Akbar's time doesn't mention the potato (called aalu, in Hindi). India produces about 16 million tonnes …
ANY DAY NOW, we'll have the perfect potato -- not too waxy or floury, not mottled with bluish grey stains or with a scaly skin. When it does make its debut, it will be thanks to a little genetic engineering. Assures botanist Michael Wilkinson of the Scottish Crop Research Institute, …
A NEW variety of potato has its own armour against pests and does not need a helping hand from insecticides. Its armour of hair traps and kills insects trying to feed on it (Ceres, Vol 25, No 2). The hairy potato marks the first success for plant breeders trying to …
SCIENTISTS have enhanced the nutritional value of the potato by inserting a synthetic gene into the plant and are now considering how to use genetic engineering to provide the plant with resistance to pests and disease. The International Potato Centre (CIP) in Peru collaborated with Louisiana State University to produce …
Behind an unmarked door in a Lima suburb, Javier Wong is planning a revolution in more than just stir-fry cooking. In fact the very future of food - and farming - is being re-imagined here in a city where nobody dined out 20 years ago, where there is no national …
