Pollen morphology of 7 species representing 5 genera of the family Lythraceae from Pakistan have been examined by light and scanning electron microscope. Lythraceae is an eurypalynous family. Pollen g...

The pollen grain of all the species of the genus Sibbaldia (Rosaceae) has been examined by light microscope (LM) and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The pollen grains are prolate spheroidal to pro...

Pollen grains of 8 species belonging to 3 genera viz., Atelanthera, Arcyosperma and Sisymbrium (Brassicaceae) from Pakistan were studied by light microscope. Pollen grains usually radially symmetrical...

In this investigation, the effects of fungicides Switch 62.5 WG (%37.5 Cyprodinil + % 25 Fludioxonil) and Mythos SC 300 (300 g/ L Pyrimethanil); widely used on greenhouse grown tomatoes against grey m...

Hibiscus micranthus L.f. var alli S. Abedin and Euphorbia abdulghafooriana S. Abedin were inadvertently published earlier without latin diagnoses. They are being provided with latin diagnoses for the ...

A new endemic species of Ornithogalum sumbulianum O. D. Düsen & I.G. Deniz sp. nov. (Hyacinthaceae) is described from south-west Anatolia. Diagnostic morphological characters for discrimination f...

Michelia xinningia Law & R. Z. Zhou, a new species from Xing'an County, Guangxi Province, China, is described and illustrated. This species is similar to M. platypetala Hand.-Mazz., but differs in its...

Four parents (Mash 1, Mash 3, MM 33-40, and 45726) were used to study inheritance of four qualitative characters, i.e., pubescence, seed coat colour, presence of spots on the seed coat and pod colour....

In order to identify sources of genetic resistance in mungbean and blackgram (mash), 32 accessions (16 each of mungbean and blackgram) were evaluated under greenhouse conditions by sap inoculation met...

This study was conducted to assess the variation among lentil germplasm for their reaction to natural virus infection and to identify sources of resistance against viruses infecting lentil. Based on f...

Three hundred and seventeen accessions of lentil collected from all over the country were characterized for stem colour, pedicle colour, growth habit, tendrils, hairiness, leaf pubescence, leaflet siz...

Pisum sativum germplasm collected from Pakistan was evaluated for agronomic traits and analyzed for biodiversity within each district. The differences proved its validity in substantiating the postula...

Four hundred and forty eight chickpea genotypes obtained from local and exotic sources were screened against blight at two stages during winter 2002-03. None of the genotypes was highly resistant at a...

The study was conducted to determine the relationship of chickpea genotypes towards blight disease reaction, in vitro growth of A. rabiei on sap extracted from chickpea and seed protein pattern by SDS...

Chickpea lines Flip 90-131C, Flip 96-152C, Flip 96-153C, Flip 96-155C, Flip 96-158C and ICCV 95503 were found highly resistant (0% incidence) to wilt disease whereas Flip 85-29C, Flip 85-30C and Flip ...

Seasonal changes in carbon (C) availability and soil microbial biomass carbon (Cmic) were studied under an irrigated wheat-maize system receiving urea at 50 or 100 kg N ha-1 year-1 in combination with...

Sporobolus ioclados (Nees ex Trin.) Nees (Poaceae) is a perennial salt secreting grass distributed from coastal sand dunes and marshes of the Arabian Sea to saline flats throughout the Indus basin in ...

Water culture studies of short (seedling stage) and long term (maturity) stage were conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of salinity (0, 50, 75 mM NaCl) on the growth, yield and yield ...

Halopyrum mucronatum (L) Stapf., is a salt tolerant grass found on the coastal dunes of Arabian Sea. Seasonal variations in water relations of H. mucronatum were studied near Sandspit, Karachi over a ...

Many species of plants have potential to be utilized as medicinal and therapeutic agents, not only for the treatment of various diseases of man and animals but can also be used as insect control agent...

Starches are one of the most important naturally occurring glucose polymers that are present in plants. They are used as the starting material for the production of a variety of different types of com...

Crude seaweed extracts of Caulerpa racemosa, Ulva fasciata, Caulerpa faridii, Codium flabellatum, Laurencia pinnatifida, Melanothamnus afaqhusainii, Gracilaria corticata and Scinaia hatei exhibited si...

Inoculation of soybean seeds variety William 82 and NARC-II with rhizobase inocula of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi - Glomus macrocarpum and G. warcupii and root nodule bacterium, Brady...

Sclerotium rolfsii proved to be highly pathogenic on sunflower, mungbean and sugar beet, mildly pathogenic on tomato, lentil, sweet pumpkin and cabbage, and non-pathogenic on cauliflower plants in pot...

One hundred twenty wheat seed samples collected from Sindh wheat growing areas were tested for fungal seed-borne pathogens by using the standard blotter method. Five seed borne fungi viz., Alternaria ...

During a taxonomic study on Oomycetous fungi from Sindh province of Pakistan, a Pythium species was isolated from soil collected from guava field in Hyderabad district, Sindh, Pakistan. Morphologicall...

Morchella elata has been recorded for the first time from the Gilgit valley (Mushkin forest) Pakistan. This spices is characterized by the production of brown or redish purple, elongated, cylindrical,...