Application of seaweed as soil amendment for the control of soilborne plant diseases has increased in recent years due to their environment friendly role. In screen house study, a red seaweed Solieria...

The reactions of soybean cultivars to known races of Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea (Psg) in the light of known avirulence (avr) genes and their corresponding resistance genes were reevaluated to p...

Eleven species of Bacillariophycota were collected from various freshwater habitat of Multan Pakistan. The present paper describes the taxonomy and distribution of 11 freshwater pennate diatoms belong...

The potential for two overlapping fragments of DNA from a clone of newly isolated alkanes degrading bacterium Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis encoding sequences with similar homology to two parts of fu...

Zygosporium gibbum var. mangiferae var. nov. is described. Illustrated and compared with with other species of Zygosporium on Mangifera indica from Shujabad, Pakistan....

Pollen germination of Praecitrullus fistulosus L., of the family Cucurtbitaceae was examined in fresh and stored pollen upto 48 weeks at different temperatures i.e., -30°C refrigerator (+4°C), freez...

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The In vitro fungitoxic potential of Tagetes erectus L. was scrutinized against Ascochyta rabiei, the causal agent of chickpea blight disease. The pathogen was exposed to various concentrations (1...

Postharvest diseases and disorders reduce mango fruit quality and cause severe losses, sometime yielding completely unmarketable fruit. Further, the risk of fruit fly presence has made it mandatory to...

Microbial consortium represents an important new frontier for biotechnology. It has been employed in many fields of biotechnology but its application for the production of β-glucosidase is yet to be ...

The interations of plant regrowth, non-structural carbonhydrate (total soluble carbohydrate, glucose, surcose, fructose and starch) concentrations and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) was examined i...

A total 19 genera and 38 species of fungi were isolated by using standard blotter and deep freezing method from chilli seeds. Of these Aspergillus flavus, A. niger, A. fumigatus, Alternaria alternata,...

In the present study the selected strain of Aspergillus niger was subjected to physical and chemical mutagenesis. Alternate treatments of Ethidium bromide and EMS were also given to the parental strai...

The present research work was designed to gather indigenous knowledge of medicinal plant species, which are being utilized by the local inhabitants of arid (Kadhi) areas of Khushab, Punjab, Pakistan. ...

In the present study, the leaves of 18 Scorzonera L. (Asteraceae) taxa were studied by LM in order to assess anatomical variations that may serve as distinguishing characters and to evaluate their sig...

Sunflower is the world fourth most important sources of edible oil. A lot of work has been done for varietals improvement through conventional breeding in Pakistan. Sunflower is the cash crop and is e...

Triticale (Triticosecale), a new man made cereal, is known to be more drought tolerant and high yielding. An experiment comprising eight genotypes each of wheat and triticale was conducted at the Khyb...

A systematic study of 25 taxa belonging to 12 genera of tribes Gnaphalieae, Helenieae, Plucheeae and Senecioneae of Compositae from Egypt was conducted by means of numerical analysis based on 19 main ...

A pot experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of synthetic wastewater containing various concentrations of cadmium and chromium on Eucalyptus camaldulensis. Six month-old seedlings of E. camal...

Callogenesis and organogenesis studies were carried out for three important cultivars of rice i.e., Basmati-370, DR-82 and IR-6. 2,4-D @ 2.0 mg l-1 on MS medium proved to be the best for callus format...

Experiments were conducted to study the effect of seed priming on germination and yield of different maize varieties at the Department of Agronomy and Malakandher Research Farms KPK Agricultural Unive...

An experiment consisted of 33 germplasm of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) collected from FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) and neglected pockets of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were evaluated at t...

Combining ability effects and variances for yield and quality related traits were carried out in an 8x8 diallel cross of spring wheat. The general combining ability effects were significant for all th...

A simple and routine method for the analysis of tissue culture-derived banana plants for somaclonal variations is a prerequisite for precise monitoring of quality control during rapid mass micropropag...

Three diverse sesame genotypes viz., Rama, SI 1666 and IC 21706 were treated with both physical (γ-rays) and chemical (EMS) mutagens separately. Three doses of γ-rays (200 Gy, 400 Gy and 600 Gy) and...

In this study which was performed with 20 durum wheat genotypes at three locations during two crop seasons. The relative large variations were observed for the characters except test weight and days t...

Sugarcane is being recognized as major source of sugar in the world. Identification of high sucrose clones endowed with other agronomic traits can be speedup with the help of specific molecular marker...

The seeds from two varieties namely Sabz Pari and Punjab-8 of Okra (Hibiscus esculentus), grown under similar environment, exhibited oil content 11.72 and 13.42%, respectively. Protein, fiber, moistur...

Over 10 centuries, ancient cultivated tea populations (Camellia sinensis var. assamica) are still planted merely in Yunnan province of China. Genetic diversity and differentiation were examined in 10 ...

Ten advance bread wheat lines along with local check were evaluated at seven diverse sites. The environment accounted for 79% of total sum of squares while GxE interaction variance was found 8% and fo...

Thirty mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) genotypes were evaluated at two locations of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan during 2007 and 2008 using randomized complete block design with thre...

Crude methanolic extract and various fractions of Zizyphus oxyphylla Edgew stem were screened for antibacterial, antifungal, phytotoxic, cytotoxic and insecticidal activities. Antibacterial bioassay p...

Cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae L., and turnip aphid, Lipahis eyrsimi Kalt., are the regular insect pests of Brassica crops in Southern Punjab, Pakistan. Population development of and losses to y...

The allelopathic interactions of weed specie (Asphodelus tenuifolius Cavase) were investigated using two test crop i.e. wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) in a greenhouse ex...

Hydroponic experiment was conducted to investigate the sole and combined effects of cadmium and salinity on growth and photosynthesis of Brassica napus (cultivar Abasin) and Brassica juncea (cultivar ...

Studies on the allelopathy of Cenchrus ciliaris L., and Bothriochloa pertusa (L.) A. Camus showed that simulated and natural rain leachates from shoots and root exudates were inhibitory to various tes...

The green house based experiments were conducted in the Department of Botany FUUAST, Karachi to study the allelopathic effects of root and shoot leachates of Anagallis arvensis on the two test species...

Three varieties of the coconut (Tall, Dwarf and Hybrid) were subjected to analyse for physicochemical properties of meat and nut water, Sodium (Na), Moisture %, Ash %, Calcium (Ca), Iron (Fe), Magnesi...

Three rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties (Basmati-Pak, Basmati-370 and IRRI-9) of Pakistan were grown for their entire life cycle in open top field chambers to investigate the impacts of ambient ozone (...

A natural dye lawsone (2-hydroxy-1, 4-naphthoquinone) was isolated from dry leaves of Lawsonia inermis L., by extraction with clove oil, ethyl alcohol, water and its effectiveness as staining agent fo...

Lentil is an important food supplement bearing potential nutrients. An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of foliar and soil application of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK) on yie...

This study explored the nutritive value of Morus alba, Acacia nilotica, Syzygium cumuni and Ziziphus jujuba leaves. Chemical analyses revealed that dry matter (DM) ranged from 25% to 47% in M. alba an...

Chlorophyll content especially chlorophyll a (Chl a) is a measure of microphytobenthos (MPB) biomass in sediments. In this study both vertical and horizontal variations in Chl a content in mangrove fo...

A research study was conducted at Greater campus including NWFP Agricultural University Peshawar, University of Peshawar, University of Engineering and Technology and other institutions on Peshawar un...

The present study reports the biosorption potential of chemically pretreated mycelial biomass of fungus Aspergillus niger van. Tieghem for Cu(II) and Ni(II) ions from aqueous phase. Fungal biomass was...

The study was carried out to assess the nutritional value and mineral contents of four medicinal plants viz., Aerva javanica Burm.f, Calotropis procera Ait. f, Datura alba Nees, and Nepeta suavis Stap...

Salt tolerance potential of a newly developed wheat genotype (N-9760: V3) was assessed by comparing it with a known salt tolerant line (N-1073:V2) and a commercial cultivar (Inqlab: V1) using various ...

Lead produced significant effects on different growth parameters of Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth such as root, shoot, seedling length, leaf area, plant circumference and seedling dry biomass in natural ...

The paper depicts the phenological behaviour of sweet orange cv. ‘Salustiana’ and to search out the solution of a serious problem of pre harvest fruit drop. Citrus plants having uniform age and si...

Pure β-Gliadin from Maris Widgeon wheat homogeneous on gel chromatography, disc gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and purified on ion exchange chromatography was subjected to investigation for possible pres...

For biotransformational studies, Callus of Catharanthus roseus was produced from young shoot tip on Murashige & Skoog medium supplemented with 1.5 mg/litre 2, 4-D and 0.5 mg/litre Kin, solidified by 8...

Drought is one of the most important types of abiotic stress that affects stability and amount of yield. This study was conducted to screen for drought tolerance at early seedling stages for 318 ecoge...

In the present work, plant tissue culture conditions were optimized for In vitro germination from dehusked seeds of two varieties of rice (Oryza sativa L), Super Basmati and IRRI-6 on MS and LS medium...

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The possible involvement of Cu on N – metabolism in relation with protease activity, proline, amino acid contents and protein oxidation was observed. These were monitored as bio-indicators in the se...

Influence of a potential plant growth regulator, 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) on the pattern of accumulation of some key inorganic elements in salt-stressed sunflower plants was observed under greenh...

The purpose of this study was to observe the antibacterial activity of aqueous methanolic extracts of 10 plants against 2-gram negative bacteria (Pasteurella multocida, Escherichia coli) and 3-gram po...

Soil salinity is a major constraint to food production due to its negative impact on crop yield. Kochia (Kochia scoparia) is a salinity-resistant plant that can widely be used as emergency forage for ...

Pineapple (Ananas comosos (L.) Merr.) is one of the important fruits in Taiwan. Prior to flower-initiation, Tainung No. 13 contains generally lower concentration of calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg) and bo...

Eleven wheat genotypes in Micro-plot Wheat Yield Trial including two checks (AZRI-96 and local) were evaluated for drought, yield and disease resistance in order to incorporate the high yielding and d...

To assess the seasonal and spatial changes in the soil physico-chemical characteristics and nutrient availability, six ecologically diverse sites were evaluated during this study. Redundancy analysis ...

Diatomite is a sedimentary rock primarily composed of the fossilized remains of unicellular fresh water plants known as Diatoms. However, its usage in horticulture is not common. It is mostly used as ...

In order to verify the ethnopharmacological effects of local plant, Sauromatum venosum (Ait.) Schott., on scientific lines the antibacterial activity including MIC and antioxidant activity of the crud...

Halophytes in arid and semi arid zones of the world are often subjected to extremely variable drought, salinity and temperature. These fluctuations may bring about changes in their osmoregulation and ...

Aeluropus lagopoides is a salt tolerant grass which propagates both through genets and ramets. Six disjunct populations of A. lagopoides from Pakistan were selected to test the hypothesis that genetic...

The study was carried out for two consecutive years (2005-06 to 2006-07) to evaluate the wheat response to five different levels (0, 4, 8...

Investigations on screening of wheat genotypes under different salinity (NaCl) levels were carried out at Nuclear Institute of Agriculture (NIA) Tandojam, Pakistan during winter season of 2005-2006. T...

The paper summarizes the results of an experiment conducted on wheat at Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan during winter 2004-05. Randomized complete block design with split-split-plot arrangement wa...

The study was conducted at Agronomy Research Farm, KP Agricultural University Peshawar. Fifteen alfalfa lines (M. sativa L.) were compared for crop growth rate (CGR), biomass yield and radiation use e...

The objective of this study was to quantify the effects of canopy temperature on seed quality and vigor of soybean planted on different dates. An experiment was conducted at the Agriculture Research F...

Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) genotypes have varying densities of trichomes on the leaves. Absence of trichomes increases the attractiveness of the cotton plant to some major insect pests, thu...

Wheat and other cereals sustain huge quantitative and qualitative losses each year all over the world due to the attack of storage pests. The damage caused by Khapra beetle is comparatively greater th...

The present study describes the improvement of a thermophilic fungal strain Humicola insolens for cellulase production. H. insolens TAS-13 has the potential to produce 1.00 U/ml/min CMC-ase, 0.43 U/ml...

The effect of light quality on the growth and development of geranium (cv. Century Rose) was examined in three different glasshouse temperatures i.e....

Vernalization response genes are known to contribute indirectly to grain yield by influencing flowering time, number of tillers and spikelets in sensitive wheat genotypes. There has been no report of ...

The rural population of Himalayas is strongly dependent on the forest wood and pastures to fulfill their fuel, shelter and livestock fodder demands. Due to absence of any effective conservation manage...

A research has been conducted over methodological issues concerning the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) by determining an appropriate measurement (direct and indirect) of constructs and selection of...

The present study deals the optimization of cultural conditions for the production of alpha amylase by Aspergillus oryzae IIB-30 and its mutant derivative A. oryzae EMS-18 in stirred fermenter. The ti...

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