Phoenix dactylifera L. is native to the southern of Tunisia where it is the most important crop. The aim of this study is to assess the diversity in Tunisian date palm cultivars using molecular marker...

Prof. Nizmuddin was born on 11th January 1930 at Atsar, Bihar, British India as 1st son of Mr. Abdul Ghafoor a landlord of famous Malick family. During infancy he lost his father and was taken care b...

The pollen morphology of nine taxa three of which are endemics belonging to Onosma L. (Boraginaceae); O. orientale, O. halophilum, O. bourgaei, O. chlorotrichum, O. heterophyllum, O. ambigens, O. oreo...

In this study, the nutlet micromorphology of 9 taxa of Turkish Onosma species viz., O. sericeum Willd., O. cassium Boiss., O. rutilum Hub.-Mor., O. sieheanum Hayek, O. albo-roseum Fisch. & Mey. ssp. a...

The phenetic relationship between the species of the genus Sedum L. was investigated. Data from macro and micromorphology, including pollen and seed morphology, chemistry and distribution pattern was ...

In this article, ITS sequences of 20 species in Osmanthus were cloned and researched. It was found that length of ITS sequences ranged from 614bp to 619bp, in which ITS-1 is obviously longer than ITS-...

Indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants was recorded during summer 2004, in 22 villages of Chagharzai valley, District Buner. The study revealed 141 plant species belonging to 120 genera and 26 famil...

A survey was carried out about ethno botany of flora of Ratwal Village. It was found that the area is enriched in natural flora and the residents are dependent on this natural resources especially for...

This article is based on the results of an ethno-botanical research of wild plants of Dir Kohistan Valley, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The main objective was to enlist the wealth of ethnobotanicaly ...

National Parks are diverse habitat for different medicinal plants. So far 21 areas in Pakistan have been declared as National Parks (NP). The present investigations focus on the ethnobotanical study o...

Adonis vernalis is a pontic element and rare plant distributed in grassland communities in the South-East Europe steppe zone. Histo-anatomical and micromorphological investigations regarding root, ste...

Cypselas of 5 species distributed in 3 genera of the tribe Mutisieae (s.l.) were examined from Pakistan to assess their taxonomic significance. Micromorphological characters of cypsela including shape...

Present investigation of pollen germination and viability pertain to a monoecious species Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standley belonging to Cucurbitaceae. The pollen germination was examined up to 48...

The study was undertaken to determine the influence of pollen sources and pollination frequency on fruit drop, yield and quality of date palm cv. ‘Dhakki’. Three ‘Dhakki’ female trees and thre...

With this research, the viability levels, production potentials, and storage periods of pollen of naturally grown four male terebinth types (Pistacia terebinthus L.) and four male pistachios (Pistacia...

Biodiversity of Khunjerab National Park (KNP) was carried out during May and June...

A survey of natural vegetation along Hanna Lake, Baluchistan was undertaken. The study was conducted with in two distinct zones for clear communities’ demarcation. The vegetation data was analyzed b...

Six species/cultivars were selected for the comparative anatomical studies of leaf in the genus Rosa from Faisalabad and adjoining administrative districts. The most widely cultivated R. damascena sho...

The present study provides an insight of use of Tagetes erectus as it contains herbicidal constituents for the management of Parthenium weed. Herbicidal effects of aqueous shoot, root, flower and soil...

In the present studies, the proximate composition and functional properties of rhizome flour of lotus cultivated in the Southern Punjab, Pakistan, were determined. The proximate composition (g/100 g f...

Efficient nitrogen (N) fertilizer management is critical for the improved production of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and can be achieved through source and timing of N application. Thus, an experiment...

Concern for the sustainability of yield and soil fertility has led to a renewed interest in crop rotation and incorporation of crop residues. The objective of this experiment was to study the effects ...

The experiment was conducted to compare Pigeon pea (PP) and Sesbania gentia (SG) legumes as catch crop in a permanent cereal based (wheat-maize) rotation. The residual effect of legumes with or withou...

In the present studies field experiments were conducted to study the production potential of September planted Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) under varying agro-management practices for the year...

Availability of green fodder is one of the most serious problems for livestock particularly in winter season. The aim of this research was to evaluate dual purpose wheat utilized for forage and grain ...

Management systems influence soil quality over time. A study was carried out on Vanmeter farm of the Ohio State University South Centers at Piketon Ohio, USA to evaluate the impact of crop rotations o...

A field experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of six different seed rates viz....

Five districts of the State of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (Pakistan) were explored for evaluation of 60 Pyrus accessions for their fruit quality. A considerable variability in organoleptic rating, chemical ...

Fertilizer management particularly for mango trees is tedious on alkaline and calcareous soil. Mango (Mangifera indica L.) cv. Langra trees were supplied fertilizer through soil application under bimo...

The present study was aimed to optimize phosphorous and zinc doses to maximize wheat productivity under arid climate. Varying levels of phosphorus (P1= 60, P2 = 90 and P3 = 120 kg ha-1) and zinc (Zn1 ...

Sixteen Snapdragon cultivars were imported from United States of America (PanAmerica Seeds, Chicago. IL) and were grown at University College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha for their...

Color is a key quality trait of wheat-based products and polyphenol oxidase (PPO) is implicated to play a significant role in their undesirable darkening. Polyphenol oxidase catalyzes the oxidation of...

Boron is the deficient micronutrient in the soils of Pakistan. Boron (B) deficiency is wide spread in rice growing areas of Pakistan. Low and very high soil B depress grain yield of cereals. A field e...

Field experiment near Palosi drain was conducted to study the effect of tube well (TW) and waste water (WW) with or without basal dose of NP and K on the yield and heavy metal uptake of tomato during ...

Thermostability is a characteristic of most of the enzymes available for bulk industrial usage. Thermophilic microorganisms are of special interest as a source of novel thermostable enzymes. A total o...

The present study describes the improvement of parent strain of Azotobacter vinelandii NRRL-14641 for enhanced alginate production using shake flask fermentation. Results indicated that a mutant A. vi...

Black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) the “King of Spices” is a universal table condiment. It is extensively used in Pakistani cuisines and herbal medicines and imported in bulk from neighboring countrie...

A field-scale experiment with a complete randomized block design was performed to study the degradation of carbaryl in soil. Soil was treated with different types of treatments. Degradation was observ...

In the present research, a total 28 bean cultivars grown in Turkey were characterized by the numerical analysis of seed protein profiles obtained by using sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel el...

Arthrocnemum indicum is a stem succulent perennial halophyte from the family Chenopodiaceae. Experiments on seed germination were carried out using NaCl and sea salt (0...

Total seed storage proteins were analyzed in genotypes belonging to three Poa species collected from Turkey. In this study, SDS-PAGE method was preferred to inter and intra-specifically determine the ...

Wheat genotypes were evaluated for salinity tolerance under 3 diverse environments of Yar Hussain, Baboo Dehari (District Swabi KPK Pakistan) and Khitab Koroona (District Charsadda KPK Pakistan). Elev...

Boron (B) toxicity has been recognized as a serious problem in arid and semi arid regions of the world. This study was aimed to determine critical levels of B by studying phenotypic variation for B-to...

Effect of elevated CO2 with Bradyrhizobium japonicum strain (KUCC-118) on some biochemical parameters of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr was studied. The sterilized seeds of Glycine max were coated wit...

Eight fruit samples of apple, guava, orange, grapes, pear, persimmon, banana and pear purchased from the local markets of Nawabshah district, Sindh and residues of pesticide of organophosphate (OP), p...

Breeders are always interested in the task of developing new varieties for changing environments. Thus, they have to deal with new crosses to select desired combinations. Grain yield is a complex char...

Leaf samples of sugarcane were collected from symptomatic and non-symptomatic plants. Total RNA was extracted and purified from sugarcane leaves samples. Presence of mosaic virus was confirmed by RT-P...

Loquat buds during floral differentiation which contain large amounts of polysaccharides, proteins and secondary metabolites were not amenable to conventional RNA isolation protocols. Here a concise a...

The aim of our study was to consider the efficiency of randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis to show the differences between Rhododendron mutants and control plants. The mutant plantlets ...

The present study was conducted at the farm of the Rice Research and Training Center, Sakha, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt, during 2000-2007 rice sowing seasons. Five rice varieties viz., Giza 171, Giza 175, ...

One hundred fourteen accessions of rapeseed (Brassica campestris L.) were evaluated at National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan using cluster and principal component analyses during ...

Synthetic-derived bread wheat populations are used as sources of resistance genes for biotic and abiotic stresses. This study used direct field evaluation of synthetic-derived wheat lines to assess gr...

Three Basmati rice genotypes viz., 00515, 99417 and Super Basmati were examined for varietal differences in radio sensitivity to gamma radiations. Dry healthy seeds were exposed to variable doses of g...

In the present investigation 34 Pakistani Black gram cultivars were evaluated through morphological traits, SDS-PAGE analysis and random amplified polymorphic markers (RAPD) which revealed considerabl...

Wheat is one of the main sources of nutrition worldwide. Genetic improvement of the seed makes wheat a source of high quality flour for human consumption and for other industrial uses. With the help o...

A diallel experiment was conducted to determine better general and specific combiners in 8x8 Brassica juncea L., genotypes for seed yield and its associated traits. Analysis of variance revealed highl...

A study was performed on 92 genotypes of soybean including 4 checks during the Kharif season (July-Oct) of 2003. High values of the Shannon index for flower colour (0.54), pod colour (1.12), plant typ...

The use of crop varieties resistant or tolerant to insect pests stress is an imperative approach in non-chemical crop protection. In the presented studies...

Experiments were conducted to assess whether exogenous application of some essential micronutrients (B and Mn) through foliar spray could ameliorate the adverse effects of salt stress on growth and bi...

Commercial cucumber cultivars were explored for embryogenesis and plant regeneration induced in somatic tissues on plant growth regulators (PGRs). Maximum callus induction 94.16% and 76% was observed ...

The present study was conducted to develop sunflower hybrids with maximum yield potential. The genetically diverse sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) inbred lines comprising 6 cytoplasmic male steriles ...

Plants produce a diverse range of bioactive molecules, making them rich source of different types of medicines. In the present study the, In vitro antibacterial activity of 3 medicinal plants viz., Pa...

The present study was conducted to investigate the antioxidant and radical scavenging activities of essential oils of four Lamiaceae plants i.e. Pogostemon cablin, Lavandula angustifolia, Melissa offi...

Bacteria exhibiting antimicrobial activity were isolated from contaminated sites in Riyadh area, Saudi Arabia. It was charaterized and identified as Rhodococcus erythropolis. The biosurfactants produc...

In the present study hot water diffusates of different plant species (100gm /100ml) were screened for testing antibacterial activity using hole plate diffusion method against most aggressive isolates ...

Present investigation describes the biosynthesis of extracellular lipases by various local fungal strains isolated from various lipid rich habitats of Faisalabad. The isolated cultures of Aspergillus ...

Antibacterial activity of various solvent extracts of Eruca sativa seed as well as seed oil was investigated against Gram+ve and Gram-ve bacterial strains. Maximum zone of inhibition was observed from...

The present research work was aimed for the isolation and identification of poly (3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) degrading Aspergillus fumigatus and optimization of culture conditions for the maximum produ...

Melampsora laricis-populina, Phragmidium shogranense, Puccinia coronata var. coronata, P. menthae and P. nitidula were collected and described from Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan as new records for ...

Chickpea variety, C727 susceptible to Ascochyta rabiei, was grown in small plots of 20 sq feet area. Induction treatments were given by spraying aqueous solutions of 1.0 mM Salicylic acid, 50 mM K2HPO...

The major aim for any crop breeding program is the development of good quality lines with an adequate resistance/tolerance to yield-reducing stresses. Fungal diseases i.e., chocolate spot (Botrytis fa...

The present research was conducted in Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan to determine the effect of sewage water treatments on accumulation of some heavy metals (Pb, Cd and Cr) in cv. Dunkeld of canola (Brass...

After slight modification, pellets of Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh plant parts viz., leaves, stem and pneumatophore were prepared from pyrophyllite at two different ratios 50:50 and 25:75 and incor...

Phytochemical investigation on the pneumatophores (aerial roots) of Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh., resulted in the isolation of two sterols, Stigmasterol-3-O-β-D galactopyranoside ...

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