How South Africa is keeping its worst invader – famine weed – at bay
Reading Time: 4 minutesBY BLAIR COWIE, PhD Candidate Invasive Species Management, University of the Witwatersrand THE poisonous herb, Parthenium hysterophorus, is one of the world’s most destructive invasive plants. It threatens biodiversity, national food security and human health. Native to parts of Central and South America (Gulf of Mexico) it has spread to more than 40 countries including […]
UKM rice-es to the need
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY ASMAHANIM AMIR SEMANGGOL, PERAK: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) has produced a new variety of high quality white rice that is durable, through a new innovation process involving cross breeding wild rice species and local rice species for the first time in Malaysia. That process is cross breed process between local high quality rice namely Oryza […]