Spermidine (Spd) and wood vinegar are widely reported for its positive role to ameliorate plants under abiotic stress. In this study, the protective roles of Spd and wood vinegar in salt-sensiti...

Understanding the impact of salt stress on cotton growth, the antioxidant system, and ionomic responses is of great importance for maintaining cotton productivity and sustainability in arid regi...

The ethylene responsive transcription factors (ERFs) play various functions in the processes of plant growth, development and myriad stress responses. We previously reported one light-regulated ...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of four plant growth promoting rhizobacteria; Pseudomonas putida, Bacillus pumilus, Lysinibacillus sphaericus and Exiguobacterium...

Heavy metal pollution is a serious issue for the large parts of world especially with respect to agriculture. This study was undertaken to investigate the effect of di...

Drought stress is one of the primary problem for agricultural crops which causes a great decline in crop production in Pakistan and worldwide. Rice is an economically main cereal crop affected b...

The current investigation was performed to assess the mitigating role of externally supplemented 24-epibrassinolide (EBR) against cadmium (Cd, 100 and 200 µM) induced stress in maize plant...

There are nine Chinese indigenous tree peony species including Paeonia suffruticosa and Paeonia rockii, which have hundreds of traditional ornamental cultivars widely ...

The present study deals with the individual and combined effect of heavy metals and EMF. The treatments include different concentrations of lead and cadmium (250mm, 500mm and 750mm) which are se...

The main objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of different combinations of two growth regulators IAA and BAP on the In vitro regenerat...

High night temperature periods have reduced rice crop yields in recent years in Colombia. One of the strategies used to address this situation has been selecting tolerant genotypes and identifyi...

Compared to inferior kernels, superior kernels had significantly higher amount of starch accumulation in maize at maturity. The logistic simulation showed that the starting potential and mean ac...

Due to genetic variations, the crop plants show different responses on exposure to salinity stress, enable plant biologists to find salinity tolerant types of crop plants. Many plant breeders ha...

The MYB is a major family of transcriptional factor’s (TFs), which significantly regulate several physiological processes in plants, i.e. growth, metabolism and development on one side and...

A severe abiotic and biotic stress was faced to cotton growers in South Punjab due to high temperature and high rain fall occurred during 2014.  In current study, variation in the Cry1Ac ge...

Allium is one of the largest genera of monocotyledons with 900 species distributed all over the world. It is also one of the most important genera containing several medicinal and edibl...

In this study, 32 germplasm resources of sweet sorghum were identified to evaluate the phenotypic and genetic diversity. The results showed that the diversity index (H?) of agronomic tr...

Mitreola lincangensis, a new species of Loganiaceae from Yunnan, Southwest China, is described and illustrated. This new species is close to M. reticulata and M. pedicellat...

Solidago species, originally from North America, are successfully used in medicine due to their pharmacological effects. The most common part of Solidago plants used for its ph...

Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia), originally from North America, has had an effect on the ecological environment, social economy and human health in the invaded area. The potent...

Salvia przewalskii Maxim is an abundant and endemic plant in China, and many of its secondary metabolites are important antioxidants. In this study, the antio...

Ascorbic acid oxidase (AAO) is a member of the multi-copper oxidase family and plays an important role in plant growth and development. The functional characteristics and expression patterns of ...

The molecular epigenetic relationship between DNA methylation and hybrid vigor using different sources of cytoplasmic male sterility of sunflower (six A-lines, three R-lines, and their 18 F1'...

Two medicinal plants i.e. Cotoneaster afghanicus G.Klotz and Tamarix arceuthoides Bunge were collected from Quetta and Ziarat valleys of Province Balochistan, Pakistan. These p...

The information about the diversity of the crop for different attributes is important for their effective utilization in the breeding programs.  The present inves...

This study was carried out to determine the pomological (physical) and chemical characteristics of some local apple genotypes grown in Simav district of Kutahya, Turke...

Cymbopogon citratus has been commonly used by practitioners of traditional medicine in inflammatory diseases. The investigation and comparative anti-inflammatory activities were perform...

Drought is major constraint to wheat yield and globally causes significant yield losses. Increasing wheat tolerance to drought by screening diverse germplasm and incorporation of tolerant genes ...

Eleven stability models including parametric and non-parametric were assessed for grain yield stability. Twelve advanced wheat genotypes along with two commercial check varieties, Kiran-95 and N...

Ruminants’ health is badly affected by the hazardous effects of heavy metals. Due to the scarcity of water, feed production in many regions is very low, so mostly ruminant animals are fed ...

The adaptive properties of seven white lupin (Lupinus albus) varieties for the leaf number, plant fresh weight, root length, fresh root weight and number of nodules per plant were studi...

Considering the important role of wheat leaf rust disease in reducing wheat yields, the present study was designed to assess the countrywide distribution of wheat leaf rust across Pakistan, base...

The responses of sunflower hybrids to environmental conditions during vegetative and generative growth periods are different; these differences play an important role in seed yield. In this stud...

The purpose of the current study was to produce highly active and stable β-galactosidase by using submerged fermentation employing indigenously isolated fungi. Different soil and food sampl...

The current work focused on green synthesis of Zinc nanoparticles (ZnNPs) using the aqueous extract of Brassica oleracea italica inflorescence acting as a reducing agent. The characteri...

Microbial formulations prepared from entomopathogenic fungi emerging as the effective alternate of chemical pesticides against different crop pests. They cause lethal infections and regulate ins...

Rice is one of the most important cereal crops in the world and has high nutritional food value. A field study was laid to assess the effect of phosphatic fertilizer on microbial root colonizati...

Northern Corn Leaf Blight (NCLB) is a fungal disease and it is a stumbling block in maize production. Moreover, conventional field evaluation of a large number of maize hybrids for NCLB is expen...

Phytochemicals are plants natural compounds, ethno-pharmacologically used as anti-hepatitis, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, anti-fungal and anti-viral agents. Computer-aided drug designing (CADD) i...

Endophytes are bacteria and fungi that are contained entirely within the plant tissue, are non-pathogenic and may be mutualistic.  Beneficial interaction between ...

Salt stress is restricting crop productivity worldwide, especially in arid and semiarid areas. The plants in salinized areas have various strategies to adapt to salt stress, including forming mu...

This study sought to determine the effectiveness of colonization of bacterial endophytes following inoculation of the cells in plants. Different methods of inoculation including seed immersion, ...

The cyanobacterium, Leptolyngbya sp. and green microalga, Chlorella sorokiniana as biofertilizers, play an important role in agriculture dev...

Suaeda vermiculata is a halophytic plant widely distributed in central Saudi Arabia and traditionally used as a remedy for hepatitis, jaundice and viral infec...

Herein, we report phytochemical investigation and In vivo anti-inflammatory and antinociceptive potential of Tradescantia zebrina L. extracts. T. zebrina belongs to th...