Dr. Mohammad Aslam, an eminent Plant Pathologist of Pakistan, died of heart failure on 29 May 2002. He was buried at Haripur. May God Almighty shower His choicest blessings upon the departed soul and ...

Pollen morphology of 10 species representing 4 genera of the family Plumbaginaceae from Pakistan have been examined by light and scanning electron microscope. Plumbaginaceae is a eurypalynous family. ...

Pollen morphology of 8 species of the genus Arabidopsis (Brassicaceae) from Pakistan has been examined by light microscopy. Pollen grains are usually prolate to subprolate with 3-4 colpate, syncolpate...

Three plant communities in Central Anatolia are named, classified and briefly described. All the associations in the study area were attached to a new suballiance: Ebeno hirsutae-Thymenion leucostomi ...

Forty-six species of planktonic, edaphic, epipsammic, epioikotic, epilithic and epiphytic blue-green algae belonging to the class Chroocophyceae have been collected from various freshwater habitats in...

Specimens of the blue-green alga, Anabaina Bory de Saint-Vincent (=Anabaena Bory) have been collected from various freshwater habitats in the districts of Gujranwala, Jauharabad, Khushab, Lahore, Shei...

Five cross combinations of mungbean viz., NM 92 x NM 51,NM 92 x Pusa Baisakhi, NM 92 x NM 93, NM 92 x CV. 6601 and CV. 6601 x NM 92 in F3 and F4 generations were studied for genetic parameters and dir...

A study was carried out to investigate the relationships among percentage water absorption during imbibition, leaching of electrolytes from seeds into steep water, germination and field emergence of 2...

Abstarct: A reproducible system to produce regenerated Brassica napus L., plants has been developed using hypocotyl explants. Different concentrations of Benzyladenine (1.5, 3.0 and 4.5 mg l-1) and Th...

Banana production in Turkey occurs in those regions with a subtropical environment. However, there have not been any studies on the identification of superior types via intra-varietal selection. The a...

The cytological features including chromosome number, karyotypic characteristics, C-banding and silver NOR-banding were investigated in a local cultivar of Allium sativum L., from Turkey. Actual lengt...

Ten different varieties of Brassica napus L., were treated with three different water regimes, single irrigation applied at flowering stage, two irrigations at flowering and pod formation and three ir...

Effect of different irrigation intervals on the growth of canola cv. Oscar under saline water irrigation of different sea salt concentrations was investigated. Plants were subjected to control (non-sa...

Growth response of eight cotton cultivars to Zn stress was assessed in chelator-buffered nutrient solution. Pre-germinated seedlings were grown in half strength modified Johnson's nutrient solution at...

This study was conducted to determine the content of carbohydrates and mucilage in roots and leaflets of different Astragalus species for the first time from Iran. The content of reducing sugars, olig...

Changes in the soluble sugar composition in cherry laurel (Laurocerasus officinalis 'Oxygemmis') fruit during development and ripening were studied by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The...

The yield of solvent extracted oil of Cuminum cyminum was 18.7%. The oil was classified into hydrocarbon 1%, wax esters 1%, sterol ester 25%, triglycerides 55%...

Seed oils of 16 Lathyrus (Fabaceae) species belonging to different sections viz., Cicercula, Orobastrum, Orobon, Platystylis, Lathyrus and Pratensis were investigated for their fatty acid composition ...

Phenol and its derivatives are highly toxic and a source of serious environmental concern. The present study was undertaken to isolate and characterize the phenol resistant bacteria from indigenous so...

Using wet sieving and dilution technique, the sclerotial population of Macrophomina phaseolina in soil amended with poultry manure and sawdust was studied. Sclerotial population of M. phaseolina decli...

Pathogenecity of 42 isolates derived from single spore cultures representing 15 collecting sites of Pakistan were studied on 7 chickpea varieties. The isolates exhibited variation in morphological and...

A survey was conducted for the assessment of foliar blight of wheat in main rice-wheat cropping areas of the Punjab province, Pakistan. The foliar fungus Bipolaris sorokiniana was isolated from leaf s...

Plasmopara pusilla (de Bary) Schröter, Peronospora ranunculi Gaüm, Hormotheca robertiani (Fr.) Höhnel., Melampsora apocyni Tranzchel, Melampsora magnuisiana Wagn. ex. Kleb., Sporonema p...

Pisolithus tinctorius is recorded for the first time from Karachi, Pakistan. This species is characterized by production of brown, spiny spores, 8.8 µm in diam., excluding spines which are up to 1 µ...

A Pythium species with filamentous non-inflated sporangia, smooth oogonia of moderate size, aplerotic oospores and diclinous antheridia was isolated and identified from Pakistan. This species very clo...

Cytopleastrum gen. nov., and Cytopleastrum salvadorae belonging to Coelomycetes are illustrated, described and compared with related taxa....

The mangrove genus Avicennia possesses pencil like aerial roots called pneumatophores which are first order laterals of the subterranean cable roots and protrude vertically above the sediment surface ...