Salicylic acid (SA) is a plant signaling molecule, which regulates various metabolic processes and involves in eliciting specific responses against abiotic/biotic stresses. Present study investi...

Soil salinization is a critical restrictive causal factor for plant growth. The soluble salts could lead to low crop growth and production; thus, it is very crucial to...

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The cadmium accumulation declines the crop productivity by disturbing the metabolism of plant. Thus, it is very essential to know the process of Cd effects through Cd-induced physio-biochemical ...

The present study investigated biochemical effects of Atrazine (0, 200μM , 500 μM and 1000 μM) and Metolachlor (0, 100μM , 500 μM and 1000 μM) concentrations applied to 15-day-...

Metallic nanoparticles including CuO are considered toxic when released in the environment. However, the toxicity is concentration dependent. In present investigation, we report toxicological co...

Drought is one of the most important abiotic factors acting as a bar in the progress of agriculture around the world. Like other crops, cereals also have to endure the impact of limited water av...

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Plant growth regulators (PGRs), such as 1-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA), gibberellins, cytokinins, abscisic acid, and ethylene have become commercialized in some co...

Rehmannia glutinosa is one of traditional Chinese herbal medicines, its phenotype, catalpol accumulation and genomic methylation were studied in this research...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, endogenous and non-protein coding RNAs that are 18-26 nucleotides (nt) in length. The miRNAs have been shown to play important regulatory roles in almost all plant ...

In the present investigation, a BC4F2 population was developed from a cross [(2 G. arboreum) G. hirsutum] for transferring resi...

Biochemical characterization of plant species through SDS-PAGE method plays a key role in seed storage protein based variations. Limited reports are available about the protein profiling of elit...

In Brassica, interspecific hybridization is a potential and useful method for transferring valuable traits between species of commercial interest. In the prev...

Sorghum allelopathy has long been utilized as a bio-control technique for unwanted flora in economic crops and circumvent undue dependency on chemical weed control. An experiment was conducted d...

Interspecific hybridization is an effective method of fruit tree breeding for new varieties. In order to understand interspecific hybridization compatibility, abortive...

TEOSINTE-BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PCF (TCP) protein family is a large transcriptional regulator family in plant, which are important in various plant processes including le...

Maize germplasm was exclusively collected across Pakistan to probe the trends in genetic variability at regional levels and chronological periods. A total of 290 accessions were collected from 6...

Designing the adaptation strategies by studying biochemical, physiological and agronomic response of wheat to climate change will be important for ensuring yield stability and economic sustainab...

Water scarcity is one of the leading crop limiting factor in the modern world of farming. Improving water use efficiency is one of the most serious challenge for agricultural scientists and wate...

Seed germination, a phylogenetically conserved trait, is crucial for seedling establishment and survival in nature and can be used to establish phylogenetic relatedness among plant species. The ...

Jatropha curcas L. has biological activities that can contribute to find new products. In this study, steam distillation at laboratory scale was applied to J. curcas leaves to ...

Nitrogen and phosphorus application to forest nursery seedlings is known to influence various above-ground growth factors, such as plant composition and productivity, ...

Rice breeding on the subspecies Oryza sativa L. ssp. japonica in northeastern China has been successful over a relatively short time. However, little is known about how the gen...

The present study was conducted to investigate the existence of phytochemical constituents and antioxidant activity of medicinally important plants such as Eremost...

Vehicular traffic has become a primary source of pollution along the roadsides which adversely affects plants and other biota. This study was conducted to assess the effects of vehicular polluta...

Sweet potato or bathe [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam], a drought-tolerant plant, originates in Central America and now cultivated on large areas in China, India, J...

The study explores the spatial variability of soil parameters in potato growing valleys of CKNP region, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Soil sample’s location was documented through handheld G...

Natural forest resources of moist temperate forests of Himalayas are severely threatened due to over exploitation by rural population for their domestic usage. Six forest sites were selected to ...

Present study was aimed at documenting floristic, frequency and vegetatio-biological spectra of the vascular plants distributed in 246 sampling sites of the Murree-Kotli Sattian-Kahuta National ...

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Ethnopharmacological surveys require novel approaches to obtain successful hits in drug discovery. The objectives of the present study were to document the traditional uses of medicinal plants f...

The Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) is one of the most important groups and it has 338 genera and 3709 species around the worldwide. Plant samples of the ...

Some indole-3-acetic acid amido synthetases (GH3 proteins) were confirmed to catalyze the connection between IAA, SA or JA with amino acid to regulate hormone dynamic b...

Study of the aggressiveness potentials of a pathogen has wide applications in plant pathology for determination of its population composition and consequent disease control methods in a given en...

Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actinidae (Psa) is the most devastating disease of kiwifruit cultivation. In this study, to detect Psa in China high specifically and sensitively, a me...

Chitinases are the enzymes considered as an important biocontrol mechanism for the putative antifungal activity. Here we report the chitinolytic activity of the indige...

Susceptibility or resistance against three strains of root rot pathogens of twelve wheat cultivars were analyzed in Nebraska State of USA. It was mainly focused on the screening of twelve wheat ...

Mycorrhizal extraradical hyphae and root hairs coexist on the root surface and are responsible for water and nutrient absorption from the soil. Root hairs generally ar...

Soil is the richest medium for isolation of microbial flora especially genus Streptomyces as potent source of extracellular enzymes. Soil samples from rhizosphere of guava plant (Psidiu...

Pectinolytic enzymes are used in industries involving in fruits and vegetables processing, wine making, retting and degumming of fiber crops, extraction of olive oil, ...

The pathogenic bacteria of Fusarium oxysporum were obtained through tissue separation. The inhibition of 13 fungicides on growth of Fusarium oxysporum was determined in laborat...

Solanum melongena is a popular and edible vegetable crop of Pakistan. Outbreak of irregular necrotic leaf spots with darker margins was observed. Initially the morphological identificat...

This paper is about remotely sensed phytoplankton fluorescence, its monitoring and spatio-temporal mapping. We examined several remote sensing variables provided by th...

Dominance of harmful pennate diatom Pseudo-nitzschia delicatissima was observed during a regular environmental monitoring study carried out in the coastal waters of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia...