Pollen morphology of 7 species of the family Rutaceae from Pakistan has been examined by light and scanning electron microscope. Pollen grains are usually radially symmetrical, isopolar 3-5 colporate,...

Pollen morphology of Eustachys tenera has been examined by light, scanning and transmission electron microscope. Pollen grain are generally oblate spheroidal, a single annulate aperature with an operc...

Airborne pollen in the State of Canakkale was determined during 2000-2001 using two Durham samplers. The samplers were placed 15 m above the ground on the rooftops of the city hospital and of the mete...

An investigation was carried out on the airborne pollen fall in the State of Denizli during the year 2000. Two Durham samplers were placed at different heights above the ground. The averages of pollen...

Thymus migricus Klokov & Des.-Shost., and T. fedtschenkoi Ronniger var. handelii (Ronniger) Jalas are growing in Eastern Anatolia. Thymus fedtschenkoi var. handelii is an endemic species as the other ...

Distribution pattern and ecology of 22 taxa belonging to Inula L. (s.str.) and its allied genera viz., Pentanema Cass., Duhaldea DC., Dittrichia Greuter and Iphiona Cass., has been analyzed from Pakis...

Michelia rubriflora sp. nov., from Hainan Island, China, is described and illustrated. It resembles M. mediocris Dandy, but can be easily recognised by its ovate-elliptic leaves...

A new species of the genus Centaurea L. (Asteraceae) from Turkey, C. goeksunense Aytaç & H. Duman (sect. Psephelloideae (Boiss.) Sosn., is described and illustrated. The systematic position and...

Turkey has great variations in distributions of wild fig forms as well as fig cultivars. Antakya province has a special importance in fig production. This study was carried out in Antakya province, wh...

Twelve wheat genotypes bred at this Institute were assessed for yield and quality parameters at two levels of sowing dates i.e., normal (18th November) and late sowing (11th December). The normal temp...

Genetic diversity assessment among the 19 rice genotypes of Pakistan including 3 commercial Basmati cultivars viz., Basmati 370, Basmati 385 and Super Basmati was done using random amplified polymorph...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of increasing Cd levels (0, 0.05, 0.1...

The objective of this research was to examine the concentrations of P, K, Fe, Zn and Mn during growth and development in different parts of 4 safflower varieties. The nutrient concentrations of safflo...

Studies on path coefficient analysis for yield and yield components in rice, involving nine genotypes of aromatic group and eight genotypes of non-aromatic group were conducted separately. The study w...

Poor N fertilizer use efficiency by rice is caused by losses of N through volatilization as its oxides. Use of nitrification inhibitor like calcium carbide (CaC2) may reduce N losses. Calcium carbide ...

A field experiment was conducted to assess the effectiveness of fruiting positions along sympodia under varying levels and sources of potassium fertilizer on field grown cotton under an arid environme...

Greenhouse experiments were conducted to study the effects of temperature on the seed germination of 7 Calligonum species, dominant shrubs in shifting sand dunes and stabilized sand fields in the nort...

The effect of two soil incorporated herbicides viz., trifluralin @ 0.90,1.20,1.50 kg a.i. ha-1 and acetochlor @ 0.094, 0.124 and 0.312 kg a.i. ha-1 on weeds and yield of canola was evaluated in a fiel...

In order to determine changes in weed flora due to continuous cotton production related to irrigation, the results of surveys performed in 1995-1996 and was recently performed at the end of July 2004,...

This study was conducted to obtain a high frequency regeneration from Basmati 385 and Super Basmati, which is a pre-requisite for transformation protocol. Seed was the explant source used in this stud...

Flow cytometric analysis of DNA content in watermelon was conducted to identify tetraploids among colchicine treated seedlings and to compare flow cytometry with other methods of ploidy screening such...

Modern Dendrochronological techniques were used in 5 stands of moist temperate and dry temperate areas in Pakistan. Out of 91 cores from 60 trees of Picea smithiana (Wall.) Boiss., sampled where cross...

The wheat crop of Pakka, Kacha and Saline soils were surveyed during 1999-2000 for weed analysis. The soils of these three groups were mean of pH 7.2, EC 1.7 dS/m-1 with clay loam texture at Pakka (Ca...

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Mungbean was grown repeatedly in sandy loam soil which was either left untreated (control) or was treated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain IE-6S+ or its carbon-starved derivatives. Bacterial inocula...

Cellulases are a group of hydrolytic enzymes capable of hydrolyzing the most abundant organic polymer i.e. cellulose to smaller sugar components including glucose subunits. Cellulases have enormous po...

Invertase production by wild cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolated from dates available in local market is reported. Five hyperproducing yeast strains (>100 fold higher invertase activity) wer...

Out of 56 chickpea varieties screened for their resistance against Macrophomina phaseolina, only one variety (BGD -98) was found resistant. Three varieties viz., BG-1108, BGD-117 and RSG-143 were mode...

Several macrofungi specimens collected from Bozkir in Konya district...

A Pythium species without sporangia and zoospores, having terminal as well as intercalary oogonia with a few papilla, monoclinous but occasionally diclinous antheridia and aplerotic oospores was isola...

Lycoperdon moll is characterized by the production of fruiting body with variable shape...

Lycoperdon moll is characterized by the production of fruiting body with variable shape...