Signal: spread of crop virus
CasavaMosaicVirus

Crop viruses spurred by climate change in India

According to experts, India is the country most-affected by climate change. An increase in temperature by 0.5 degree Celsius has led to decrease in yield of 0.45 tonnes of wheat and 25-30 per cent of sugarcane/ hectare, they said. There is a paradigm shift in the nature, time and type of occurrence of viral and [...]