Desmodium plant is a valued crop in agriculture for its role in improving soil health due to their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen with the help of symbiotic bacteria in their root nodules. This ...

In most developing countries, including Uganda, the use of modern synthetic pesticides is limited and sometimes non-existent. This is so not only because they are expensive but also because of the ...

Kampala — SCIENTISTS at Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Research Institute (NAARI) have developed a technology to control stem borers and the notorious witch weed, striga in maize, writes Ronald ...

Lake Victoria — The International Centre for Plant Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), based at Mbita, on the Kenyan shores of the world's second-largest freshwater body, is advocating "push-pull ...

Also aptly known as a dancing plant, the telegraph plant’s leaflets move in circular motions for no obvious reason The telegraph plant (Desmodium gyrans, also known as Codariocalyx motorius), is very ...