Pollen morphology of 14 species representing 5 genera of the family Zygophyllaceae from Pakistan has been examined by light and Scanning Electron Microscope. Pollen grains are usually radially symmetr...

Pollen germination and viability of Abelmoschus esculentus L., (Malvaceae) upto 48 weeks was examined by "Hanging drop Technique" in different concentration of sucrose and boric acid solutions (10-100...

Effect of salinity on pollen viability, germination and yield was investigated on 8 canola cvs. Dunkled, Canola-III, Oscar, Ganyou-5, Ganyou-2, Rainbow, Abasin-95 and Westar. Plants were irrigated wit...

Productivity and internal drainage of saline-sodic soils can be restored by better management practices like combination of physical and chemical treatments. A field experiment was carried out for 3 y...

Senescence, accepted as the last phase of growth in plants, is characterized by a series of degenerative events that decrease the metabolic activity and eventually cause the death of cells, tissues an...

Protocols for in vitro tuberization of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) variety Cardinal were studied. Virus free cultures were multiplied on Murashige & Skoog (1962) medium containing 1.0 mg/l GA3. When...

The present study was conducted to provide proximate analysis and identification of acidic glycoprotein from sweet potato cultivars. For this purpose, two sweet potato cultivars via., White star (Paki...

Single nodal tea cuttings were obtained from the healthy bushes and raised in different soil media during the year 1999...

An exotic genotype VC 1482C and a local mungbean genotype NM 92 were hybridized at the Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad during kharif (July-October) 1998. Selection of ...

Morphological studies showed that tree shape in Bitter sweet orange and Yuma citrange was spheroid with spreading growth habit and wide branch angle. Leaves were simple with dark green color, medium s...

Essential oils from the peels of Malta (C. sinensis), Mousami (C. sinensis), Grapefruit (C. paradisi) and Eureka lemon (C. limon) were extracted through cold pressing method. Highest oil yield (1.21%)...

Salinity is a common problem in Pakistan, which causes poor development of crops. Studies were conducted to make possible use of waste saline land by treating the seeds with some simple chemicals. Exp...

A field experiment for two consecutive growing years (i.e....

Ameliorative effect of exogenously applied glycinebetaine (GB) on photosynthetic capacity of two wheat cultivars differing in salt tolerance grown under salt stress was assessed. Plants were grown und...

The schizocarpic fruit of Sida rhombifolia has been examined for its histo-architectural features and their functional relationship with the dehiscence of the fruit. The multicarpellary syncarpous ova...

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Two accessions of grape germplasm were tested on Murashige-Skoog media containing varying levels of BAP either or not containing IAA and NAA for in vitro growth parameters. It was observed that shoot ...

Somaclonal variation, aneuploidy, and genotypic specificity are major limitations of anther culture and bread wheat x Hordeum bulbosum crosses for producing haploids (n=3x=21, ABD). Sexual combination...

Bread wheat haploids are being routinely produced by the sexual wheat/maize crossing protocol with perfect outputs across all its genotypes. A similar success however, has not been achieved for durum ...

With the trials conducted across two locations and over two years, the correlation coefficients and path analysis were calculated between grain yield and yield components of 20 bread wheat genotypes. ...

Ten species of Zygnema C. A. Agardh (Zygnemophyceae, Chlorophyta) were collected during December 2003-December 2004 from different freshwater habitats of Gujranwala, Kasur, Lahore, Sheikhupura, Sialko...

Nine species of the diatom genus Navicula Bory de Saint-Vincent (Naviculaceae, Bacillariales, Bacillariophyceae) were collected from various freshwater habitats at Gujranwala, Kasur, Lahore and Sheikh...

The effect of varying concentrations of glucose, di-ammonium tartrate and carrot extract on the growth and yield of metabolic products of Aspergillus variecolor has been examined. Media containing 10%...

Mungbean (Vigna radiata) germplasm consisting of 254 lines was evaluated against mungbean yellow mosaic begomovirus (MYMV) under natural field conditions conducive for the development of disease and w...

Pot experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of Rhizobium leguminosarum strains (TAL-377, TAL-379 and TAL-102) alone and in combination with Phosphorus on soybean. The parameters studied were...

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt10) and Rhizobium meliloti (R5) with and without locally available nursery fertilizers viz., flourish, frutan, NPK, urea and fish meal were used to study their effect on the ...

Curvularia lunata isolated from root and soil of both wheat and rice crops were identified and their aggressiveness was studied using aggressiveness analysis. Isolates of Curvularia lunata were geneti...

Pathogenicity of 6 Fusarium spp. viz., F. anthophilum, F. moniliforme, F. proliferatum, and F. subglutinans (from section Liseola) and F. chlamydosporum and F. sporotrichioides (from section Sporotric...

During a clinical survey...