A new species Thymus baseri (Lamiaceae) is described and illustrated from central Anatolia, Turkey. The new species grows on marble rocks and scree at 1640&n...

Salt stress is one of the key factors causing multifarious adverse effects on the growth, yield, and quality of crops worldwide. The present study was carried out to ...

This paper explored the alleviation of brassinolide (BR) to Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim cv. WanLou No.9 (WL9) seedlings under the stress of herbicide glufosinate-ammonium (GA). The re...

Drought is a global problem, limiting world crop production seriously and current global climate change has made this situation worst. This study was designed to assess the potential of salicyli...

Water deficit stress is the most devastating abiotic stress to limit crop productivity, particularly in regions of semiarid to arid climate. Different strategies have been used to improve plant ...

Present investigation aims to characterize Pseudomonas moraviensis (wild type) and its IAA-deficient mutants and further to evaluate their role on physiology...

This study preliminarily aimed to discuss the relationship between the dynamic changes in physiological and biochemical indexes of flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) resistant and susceptibl...

Secondary metabolites are biologically active compounds synthesized by plants necessarily for defense. These secondary metabolites are very vital because of their tremendous use in the pharmaceu...

The plant-specific auxin efflux proteins PIN-FORMED (PIN) have been well depicted in many plant species for their essential roles in regulating the transport of auxin...

Jasione supina (Campanulaceae) is a Turkish endemic and a variable species represented by 4 subspecies in the Flora of Turkey (J. supina subsp. pontica, subsp. akm...

Population structure of plants assists in identifying the health of plants species within a particular habitat. The aim of this study was to determin...

Zucchini yellow mosaic (ZYMV) included in the genus Potyvirus is one of the most destructive pathogens of cucurbits, including ridge gourd (Luffa acutang...

DNA regions (ITS, ITS2, matK, rbcL and trnH) have been examined for authentication and differentiation between E. peplus, E. hirta ...

Dendrobium nobile of the family Orchidaceae has been widely used as an important traditional Chinese herbal medicine and a popular garden flower worldwide. It...

The purpose of this paper was to identify and analyse the morphological characteristics of European crab apple fruits and leaves within a forest ecosystem from South-West part of Oltenia region,...

Common bean landraces cultivated in the Himalayan mountains of Kashmir region constitute a diverse gene pool with broad genetic variations having immense potential in crop improvement and yield ...

Berberis lyceum Royle has a long history of medicinal uses to treat different diseases. Dry fruits and roots of this species are medicinally important and are extensively used in many p...

Genetic diversity is a key to identify elite genotypes for any crop improvement programme. In present study, diverse Taramira (Eruca sativa Mill.) genotypes ...

Sucrose is the primary form of photosynthetic products in plants, not only constituting the carbon skeleton of plants, but also the energy source for sink organs. In addition, sucrose could func...

As time progresses of the times, different kinds of nanomaterials affect the life cycle of plants as they are released into the environment. The purpose of this paper was to take Mg-doped carbon...

Development and improvement of renewable energy sources is a vital task to cope with fossil fuel associated consequences on nature. Recently, green energy has been emerged as an alternative for ...

Since green revolution, synthetic fertilizers have been used extensively to enhance the crop productivity which posed harmful effects in various ecosystems. It is therefore needed to substitute ...

Zinc (Zn) deficiency is among the major constraints for reduced fruit production and quality in mango orchards soils. Therefore, the judicious use of Zn in mango orcha...

Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diels, called DangGui in Chinese of the family Umbelliferae is a well-known perennial medicinal plant with versatile medicinal prop...

The goal of the study was to analyze the effects of three elements (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) on the growth and development of Prunus armeniaca × sibirica cv. Youyi. Hoa...

This paper explains the relative suppression of crop growth as a consequence of either allelopathic expression or osmotic stress, finding the main factor of inhibition. For this study, five crop...

Climate change scenario has revitalized necessity to optimize agronomic management practices for boosting cereals productivity and nutritional quality. To observe the growth and quality attribut...

The present study was intended to characterize the responses of soil microbial community to organic carbon sources in rice-rape rotation farmland in Erhai Basin, Yunnan, China. The farmland was ...

The rising popularity of passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims) in the local and international markets is due to its nutraceutical and pharmaceutical application, which leads to economi...

Wastewater is a rich source of essential nutrients for growth of plants. But accumulation of heavy metals restrict the uptake of nutrients that leads to the deficiency of nutrients in plant body...

An ethnomedicinal survey was conducted in 2013 in Minapin Valley, which is an administratively controlled area of Central Karakorum National Park (CKNP), Gilgit and Baltistan. Seriphidium le...

Livestock rearing often remain the sole means of livelihood in agro-pastoral communities harboring in rural mountainous settings. This study documents the characteristics, altitudinal distributi...

The article presents the results of a phytochemical study of Crambe tatarica Sebeok, a promising plant of the family Brassicaceae growing in Western Kazakhsta...

Tea is generally prepared by steeping the dried young leaves and buds of Camellia sinensis in a boiled water. Following water, tea is mostly consuming drink in the world. This research ...

The study aims for the exploration of dendroclimatological history from Himalayan fir (Abies pindrow Royle ex D. Don) growing in the mid elevation zone of Pa...

It was hypothesized that the vegetation structure of Cholistan desert shows a significant correlation with moisture (water), edaphic and climatic variables. Is it possible to identify plant comm...

The pine resin is a natural product highly demanded in the ‎chemical industry. The pine resin tapping is a non-existing activity in Tunisia. Extraction and commercialization...

Intensive and indiscriminate use of fungicides is responsible for environmental pollution effecting the living organisms. Natural plant extracts emerge to be potential candidates having competit...

Pectinases are used extensively in food, paper and pulp processing industry with a myriad of potential applications particularly in the synthesis of a variety of bioch...

Environmental damage and increase in human population showed that the global food production may soon become insufficient to feed the world’s people. It is esse...

In Pakistan, potato (Solanum tuberosum) is amongst the foremost cash crops for the farming community. Common scab (Streptomyces sp.) is one of major disease, which reduces the ...

Bacidia suffusa, a member of lichenized family Ramalinaceae is reported on the bark of Alnus nitida, from Himalayan moist temperate forest of Pakista...

Food safety has a substantial aspect of food production for quality assurance as well as public health concern. Farmers using pesticides to fulfil public needs with l...

Green synthesis utilizing plants, algae, fungi and microorganisms for nanoparticles have been drawing attention due to environmental friendly, rapid, and profitable pr...