Pollen morphology of the family Butomaceae has been examined from Pakistan by light and scanning electron microscope. Pollen grains are generally heteropolar, boatshaped, mono-colpate with reticulate ...

Numerical techniques were used to show the taxonomic relationship between the Digitaria species in Pakistan. A correlation phenogram showed a distinct dissimilarity between the species....

A new subspecies with two varieties of Digitaria sanguinalis as D. sanguinalis ssp. pakistanica var. pakistanica and var. stewartii is identified. D. sanguinalis has spines on the whole nerves of the ...

A thorough study of an extensive collection of herbarium specimens and literature of Juniperus (Cupressaceae) from the Western Himalaya, during our work on gymnosperms of this region, has revealed tha...

Fruits and seeds of all Iranian taxa of Fritillaria subgenus Fritillaria were investigated by scanning electron and light microscopy. The fruit in Fritillaria is a three-valved loculicidal capsule, lo...

Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) was used to detect polymorphism among the 7 different cultivars of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Total genomic DNA extrac...

The effects of Murashige & Skoog (1962) and Anderson (1984) media with different BA (benzyladenine) concentrations (0.3, 0.6, 0.9 mg l-1) on the in vitro shoot proliferation of peach rootstock GF 677 ...

Seedless trait is desirable and was selected on the basis of fruit stylar ring which has 5 - 20% probability of carrying seedless trait and narrow new emerging leaves of sprouts and shoots of branches...

Kinnow mandarin has nucellar polyembryony. Embryogenesis of fruits having 1-12 seeds was studied. There were 24 types of embryonic structures with most normal as 2-3 leaf with balanced germination. Th...

Abutilon theophrastii Medik., used in folk medicine in Turkey has been investigated anatomically. Examinations were done on transverse sections of leaf, stem and root....

A Leaf Area Prediction Model was developed for 12 cherry cultivars viz., (Hüsenba [1], Lambert [2], 0900 Ziraat [3], Van [4], Bing [5], Bella di Pistoia [6], Stella [7], Early Burlat [8], Karakir...

Thirty genotypes of chickpea were evaluated for 10 quantitative traits using multivariate techniques. The first three PCs with eigen values >1 contributed 83.38% of the variability amongst genotypes. ...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.), gemplasm comprising of diverse 138 accessions was evaluated for 23 physiological and agronomic characters during summer 2000 at NARC, Islamabad. The same materia...

Common vetch (Vicia sativa L.) is an important leguminous crop. Its breeding program can be improved by understanding the interrelationships among yield and yield components. Using 152 summer-sown gen...

During 1994, a cotton mosaic disease was observed on the leaves of cotton plants at several locations in cotton growing areas of the Punjab. Infected leaves were showing typical symptoms of mosaic. Tw...

Eleven different substrates viz., rice grain, sorghum grain, millet grain, cotton cake, mustard cake, wheat straw, rice straw, saw dust, sugarcane bagasse, sugarcane ash and wheat bran were used for t...

Rhizobial isolates from nodules of Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth., and Samanea saman (Jacq.) Merr., were alkali-producing, slow growing and with monotrichous flagella, whereas, those from Pithecellobium ...

Colletotrichum lindemuthianum grown in glucose/neopeptone natural liquid medium showed that yield of crude 'High Molecular Weight Culture Filtrate Elicitor' (HMWCFE) obtained by simultaneous ultrafilt...

Seven cultivars of chickpea viz., C-44, C-727, CM-72, Dasht, Parbat, NIFA-88 and Punjab-91 were tested to study the genotypic response to Ascochyta blight in terms of losses to grain yield and its com...

In this study, the effect of some Turkish propolis on the product quantity of cultivated mushroom Agaricus bisporus (Lange.) Sing. was determined. The samples of propolis were obtained from (Bursa and...

Hyalotlastrum gen. nov., et H. salvadorae sp. nov., belonging to Coelomycetes are illustrated, described and compared with related taxa....