Each year, rice faces a big threat from a sesame seed-sized insect called the brown planthopper. Now, a study reveals the molecular switch that enables some planthoppers to develop short wings and ...

Corteva launches Mavilon granular insecticide in India to protect rice crops from Brown Planthopper and stem borer. Provides ...

PULLMAN, Wash. -- 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 ...

NAGAPATTINAM: Having rained heavily the previous night, R Jayanthi (42) of Palaiyur was prepared to see her kuruvai paddy raised on about five acres slanted when heading to the fields for inspection ...

Recently, researchers from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered how a severe rice virus reproduces inside the small brown planthopper, a major carrier of the ...

Java could lose up to six million tons of rice in 2014, unless something is done immediately to regulate and reduce pesticide use. Brown planthopper populations have exploded due to the overuse of ...

VietNamNet Bridge – In the evening of June 17, clouds of brown planthoppers covered many streets of the southern city of Soc Trang. VietNamNet Bridge – In the evening of June 17, clouds of brown ...

To really sympathize with rice—and to understand why it's developed tricks for bossing insects around—I need you to imagine you're a plant throwing a party. Have you got it? Let's say it's a ...

Scientists have discovered that the quality of the host rice plant determines whether the brown planthopper, a major pest on rice in Asia, grows short wings or long wings. Scientists at Washington ...