Pollen morphology of 35 taxa of the family Tamaricaceae from Pakistan has been examined by light and scanning electron microscope. Pollen grains usually radially symmetrical, isopolar prolate-subprola...

Pollen morphology of 14 Plantago species of the family Plantaginaceae from Pakistan have been examined by light and scanning electron microscope. Plantaginaceae is a stenopalynous family. Pollen grain...

One hundred and fifty one accessions of groundnut representing five continents were evaluated for total seed protein by SDS-PAGE using slab type gel electrophoresis with 11.25 % polyacrylamide gel. Fi...

Effect of five NaCl salinity treatments (0, 50...

To determine ecological factors that affect vegetation of north Iran, the eco-phytosociological method with emphasis on physiognomic-floristic-ecologic criteria have been employed and the existing end...

The seed coat treatments (mechanical scarification, boiling seeds for 4, 6, 8 and 10 minutes and scarifying in concentrated sulfuric acid for 4, 8...

Variability, heritability, genetic advance, correlation coefficients and path coefficients for yield and its components were conducted in 24 advance lines of chickpea. High heritability with low genet...

A new sugarcane clone AEC86-347, was obtained from seed (fuzz), of a cross combination of NCo 310 x CP57-614, imported from ARS, USDA, Canal Point, Florida, USA. The genotype was evaluated for the sta...

Plants were made from natural and induced variability to improve the Kinnow plant and especially the fruit quality. There are differences among fruits in developed and undeveloped seed number and so a...

Morphological and anatomical characteristics of Crocus danfordiae Maw and C. fleischeri Gay which are endemic to small areas of Turkey were investigated. C. fleischeri has flowers with stained purple ...

Summer phytoplankton species were investigated in the Sea of Marmara between 1993-1995. The samples were collected in the months of June-August from the subsurface (0.5 m) with a 55 µm net at 52 stat...

The study deals with estimation of insect herbivory on the attached leaves of the grey mangrove Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh., in a highly polluted habitat of the Indus Delta. A greater proportion ...

Cyanobacteria a rich source for many useful natural products are used as feed and fertilizer. Optimum condition for their mass culture was evaluated. Here we characterize five marine cyanobacterial sp...

Enterococcus faecalis ESF100 has been found to produce antibacterial substance known as enterocin ESF100. The inhibitory activity could not be related to organic acids, bacteriophages and hydrogen per...

Rhizobial strains were isolated from the root nodules of Medicago sativa (alfalfa) and Trifolium subterraneum (clover) plants. These strains were tested for their growth rate, morphological characteri...

Nodulation was studied in 31 species belonging to 24 genera distributed in 18 tribes of subfamilies Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoideae and Papilionoideae from Balochistan. Of these Caesalpinia gilliesii (...

On the basis of morphological and physiological/biochemical characteristics, 4 genera and 5 species of yeasts were isolated and identified from cultivated soil and 16 species belonging to 12 genera fr...

Mango plantations in different areas of Sindh were found to suffer from a decline disease showing symptoms of drying of branches from the tip accompanied with a heavy exudation of yellowish-brown gum ...

Using standard blotter and deep-freezing techniques, seed-borne mycoflora of 40 samples from consignments of Capsicum annuum L. (red chillies var. Dhora, imported from India) was studied. Of the 47 fu...

Using blotter, agar plate and deep freezing method as recommended by ISTA, the seed borne mycoflora of 12 groundnut seed samples collected from different localities of Pakistan was examined. Of the 14...

Rust fungi viz., Cerotelium fici on Ficus carica, Melampsoridium betulinum on Betula pendula and M. carpini on Carpinus betulus are and reports from Turkey. Species Pileolaria terebinthi (on Pistacia ...

During an examination of the type specimen of Sphaeropsis undulata Berk. & Curt., No. 560 at the Mycological Herbarium, Kew Garden, it was found that S. undulata Berk. & Curt., actually belongs to Las...