Crops

Rice shipments from Thailand are expected to increase 15 per cent in 2013, making the country the top rice exporter in the world

The Philippines agriculture department has revealed plans to set up two germplasm laboratories by 2015 in an attempt to preserve and develop corn varieties

Weeds are simply green plants in the wrong place at the wrong time growing under and around trees competing with root systems for water and nutrients

Broomrape infestation can be controlled by using corn as a trap crop. (Image source: Thomas/Flickr)

Researchers in China have found that corn can be used to induce "suicidal germination" in a devastating parasitic weed known commonly as sunflower broomrape