Sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is a potential bioenergy feedstock. Research explaining the response of sweet sorghum to excessive soil moisture (EM) stress at different growth stage is li...

Physiological traits such as SPAD Chlorophyll Meter Reading (SCMR), specific leaf area (SLA) and harvest index (HI) play an important role in crop yield. The objectives of this work were to study the ...

Salinity becomes a major concern when soil salt concentration becomes excessive in growth medium. Halophytes are capable of accumulating high concentrations of NaCl in their tissues, thus using haloph...

Salt induced solute accumulation is a well known feature for osmotic adjustment in plants under salt stress. Concomitantly, synthesis of compatible osmolytes requires energy which may compromise plant...

Pot experiments were conducted to evaluate the impact of salt stress on some physiological and biochemical attributes in sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) cultivars differing in salt sensitivity and t...

Uptake and transporting pattern of toxic ions to the shoot is a crucial response by plant under saline conditions affecting metabolic activities and thereby determines salt sensitivity/tolerance in ri...

Salinity increase ethylene level in root rhizosphere. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria having ACC deaminase have ability to mitigate the adverse effect of enhanced level of ethylene. Two field exp...

Sodium-hydrogen antiporter (NHX) protein regulates the trans-membrane transport of Na+ in higher plants. Vacuolar-NHX is a type of NHX protein located on tonoplast and minimizes the accumulation of Na...

Calcareous soils have low availability of mineral nutrients that are essential for crops. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of citric acid (CA) applied in a nutrient solution on the com...

The effects of excess boron (B) on some physiological and nutritional parameters of two distinctive quince (Cydonia oblonga Mill.) rootstocks were investigated. Throughout the world, B toxicity is a w...

The use of wheat as dual purpose crop (for fodder and grain) is considered as promising agronomic management practice fulfilling human and animal need at same time. These expectations are largely foun...

A study was carried out to evaluate the biomass production potential of salt tolerant tree species grown in saline environments. For this purpose, 5 sites near Badin, Gawadar, Lahore, Faisalabad and P...

Field studies were conducted to examine the effects of salicylic acid (SA) on the growth and physiological characteristics of Cyclocarya paliurus seedlings by spraying the foliage with 0.0 (control), ...

Abstracts: Floristic composition and communities in Azad Kashmir area of Pakistan were studied by using multivariate analysis. Quantitative sampling from thirty one sites was carried out in different ...

Present study was conducted at Mangla Dam for vegetation ordinal classification by applying multivariate analysis in order to find relationship between vegetation and their edaphic factors. Samples of...

The present study was carried out in the Bela forest of District Jhelum (Punjab). The study was aimed to estimate the growing stock, biomass and carbon stock of the Bela plantation. Carbon stock in th...

Date palm is a long-living and evergreen important tree in the semiarid regions. Its fruit is rich in carbohydrate and fibres. Transcriptional profiling was compared among male and female trees of dio...

Medicago sativa cv. Pianguan, an excellent local germplasm in Shanxi province, China, with the resistance to cold and drought is broadly planted. Many studies have showed that drought resistance of pl...

Understanding the phylogenetic relationship between Triticum and Aegilops species, which form a vast gene pool of wheat, is very important for breeding new cultivated wheat varieties. In the present s...

The PHD-finger proteins are conserved in eukaryotic organisms and are involved in a variety of important functions in different biological processes in plants. However, the function of PHD fingers are...

Among DNA transposons, PIF/Harbinger is most recently identified superfamily characterized by 3 bp target site duplications (TSDs), flanked by 14-45 bp terminal inverted repeats (TIRs) and displaying ...

Anatomical studies of the Stuckenia species occurring in Turkey were conducted. The results showed that the presence or absence of interlacunar bundles and the stelar type were the most important in p...

Onosma argentata Hub.-Mor. is an endemic species growing in Turkey. It is under the threat like many other endemic species in Turkey and its IUCN category is evaluated as vulnerable. According to lite...

Plant growth regulators (PGRs), polyamines (PAs) and temperature regimes are the key factors that influence morphogenesis and plant architectural development; however, the understanding that how these...

Fruit structure of Apiaceae was studied in 19 species representing the 10 genera of the tribe Heteromorpheae. Our results indicate this group has a woody habit, simple leaves, heteromorphic mericarps ...

Stenanona flagelliflora was described in 2004. There are no studies on its biology. The goal of this study was to document some aspects of its reproductive biology. The particular objectives were to: ...

Seed morphology of 31 species belonging to the genus Zanthoxylum in China were examined using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The macro- and micro-morphological characters of seed, ...

The cyclization of geranylgeranyl diphosphate (GGPP) is catalyzed by copalyl diphosphate synthase (CPS), a class II diterpene synthase (diTPS), to form copalyl diphosphate (CPP), which is an essential...

Mango trees (Mangifera indica L.) are affected by a serious wilt disease, recognized as mango sudden death first time reported in Muzafargargh Punjab, Pakistan in 1995. Its prevalent is in almost all ...

Andiroxylon thanobolensis sp. nov., a new silicified wood has been described and identified from Tertiary Manchar formation exposed near Thanobola Khan, district Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan. The xylotom...

The present paper reports taxonomic enumeration of genus Chroococcus belonging to the Chroococcaceae family from the Kallar Kahar Lake, Chakwal, Pakistan. In all, 18 species have been recorded from th...

The intra and inter genetic diversity among 20 genotypes of Pakistani Quercus species viz., ten genotypes of Q. incana, eight Q. baloot and two Q. dilatata were analyzed using morphological characteri...

Although several medicinal plants has been documented to alleviate diabetes in Nuevo Leon, Northeast of Mexico, no systematic study has been undertaken to determine the efficacy of these plant species...

In vitro antibacterial activity of extracts was tested against six bacterial strains viz. Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus vulgaris, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae and C...

The present study was carried out to assess the effect of growth regulators in three different combinations on mass propagation of currently grown three potato cultivars cv. Desiree, Kuroda and Cardin...

Efficient micropropagation was developed for an endangered plant; Moringa concanensis Nimmo. The plant has many medicinal properties. It is an antioxidant, anti-diabetic and a powerful tonic alternati...

The mineral nutrients in vinasse provide support for algal and plant growth. Algal culture releases organic compounds into its liquid culture medium. These organic and inorganic substances can be usef...

The initiation medium for Cerasus campanulata was 1/2MS+1.0 mg L-1 BA+0.1 mg L-1 NAA +30 g L-1 sugar, and the average initiation rate was 94.4%. The proliferation medium composed of MS+0.3 mg L-1 BA+0...

Weed competition and imbalanced fertilizers are important yield reducing factors in maize. To investigate the impact of weed management and combinations of fertilizers on yield and net income of maize...

the major hurdles in successful in vitro transformation of Brassica juncea through standard tissue culture (STC) method are: culture contamination, somaclonal variations, and lack of expertise. Moreov...

The production of two or more seed types by a single plant is known as seed heteromorphism. There have been many comparisons of seed traits or growth between plants grown from heteromorphic seeds. How...

Low average yield, scarce soil moisture and less soil fertility are major problems of rain-fed wheat. Economic feasibility of different tillage systems integrated with glyphosate herbicide and wheat c...

To explore the effect of PGPR for improvement in grain yield of mungbean, different levels of fertilizer (00:00, 20:50 and 20:70 kg N:P2O5 kg ha-1) were tested on four strains (CB 1015 Australia, Vm-L...

The nodulation status in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) plants by Sinorhizobium meliloti under Saudi field condition was assessed in some selected farms in four seasons for two years. In the present stu...

The poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a thermostable and biocompatible polyester produced by several bacteria under unbalanced nutritional conditions. Among Gram-positive bacteria, which are not well e...

In the present study, we report on the kinetics of an extracellular invertase production by Yarrowia lipolytica in defined medium i.e., sucrose peptone agar yeast extract, pH 6 (SAPY). The wild-type I...

Various molecular techniques like analysis of the amplified rDNA internal transcribed spacers (ITS), intragenic spacers and total ITS region analysis by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)...

Many bacterial and fungal strains are involved in wound infectious diseases as most of these strains become resistant to the most commonly used synthetic drugs in Himalayan region. Plant based natural...

Both irrigation and potable water are in diminutive supply in most of the developing countries particularly those situated in tropical and subtropical regions where, often untreated wastewater is util...

During a survey of macrofungi, nine species belonging to order Polyporales of Phylum Basidiomycota viz., Bjerkandera adusta, Fomes fomentarius, Heteroporus biennis, Laetiporus sulphureus, Phaeolus sch...

Diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) has been used for the assessment of Zn availability and offers some advantages over routine batch extractions of soil samples. To evaluate the effectiveness of ...

Present review aimed to provide a comprehensive documentation of plants used as anti-rheumatic ethnomedicines in Pakistan and to suggest future recommendations. Data on anti-rheumatic plants was colle...