In pot experiments, 1-year-old Nitraria roborowskii Kom plants were planted under control and four levels of NaCl. The plant growth, Na+ and K+ contents, maximal efficiency of photosystem II photochem...

Carissa carandas (varn. Karonda) is an edible and medicinal plant having ability to grow in saline and water deficit conditions, however, little is known about its salinity tolerance. Therefore, the e...

To appraise the potential role of foliar applied proline as an alternative shotgun approach to ameliorate the adverse effect of salinity on wheat, a pot experiment was conducted under controlled envir...

The current work was designed to test the effect of sodium chloride on germination, seedling establishment, vegetative growth, yield, chemical contents and ionic composition of eggplant. The consequen...

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is a very popular vegetable, which is utilized all-over the world. In the current research, two cultivars of cucumber, Local and Hybrid were chosen to look at the effect ...

Dryopteris fragrans is a species of fern and contains flavonoids compounds with medicinal value. This study explain the temperature stress impact flavonoids synthesis in D. fragrans tissue culture see...

Camellia oleifera Abel originates from China and is high healthy effect food oil species. It is also a high additional plant in southern China and can help to keep some people of mountain area out of ...

In the present study, we assessed the effect of foliar application of triacontanol (TRIA) on various growth and physiochemical parameters of two maize (Zea mays L.) cultivars (cv. MMRI-Yellow and cv. ...

Wheat (Tritium aestival L.) production has increased substantially with wheat cultivar replacements, but little is known about how different-year released wheat cultivars maintain whole-plant water ba...

The development of drought tolerant and high yielding varieties/germplasm is the major objective of any wheat breeding program. In the present study genetic architecture of physiological traits, yield...

With the increasing impact of human activities on the environment, the effects of mechanical disturbance on aquatic plants are increasingly evident. Mechanical perturbations at the upper layer and sur...

This study was conducted on four treatments (0, 3, 5 and 10 milligrams per liter of cadmium nitrate solution) and three replications in a completely randomized design. The morphological characteristic...

Pot experiments were performed to assess the role of selenium in growth regulation of Solanum lycopersicum and its ameliorative role under cadmium stress. Cadmium (200 μM CdCl2) treatment reduced gro...

In this study we have examined the comparative ecophysiology of seed germination in two pairs of related pines of Mediterranean and Himalayan origins. One pair comprises Pinus canariensis and Pinus ro...

Our previous study disclosed that fluridone, a synthesis inhibitor of abscisic acid (ABA), could stimulate seed germination in the holoparasitic plant Cistanche tubulosa. Nonetheless, the underlying m...

Dragon fruit (Hylocereus costaricensis) belongs to the family Cactaceae and are climbing vines which have received worldwide attention in recent years. However, there are still lack of information on ...

Vegetation is increasingly affected by climate change in cold deserts. Nonetheless, research is limited regarding the natural environmental demands of seed germination in such deserts. This study was ...

The food security vision for 2050 has front- lined wheat as the major conduit to feed the global populace estimated at 9.2 billion. Pakistan ranks 6th in world population and among the top ten countri...

This study aims to investigate diversity, distribution, status, ecosystem services and threats to the plant resources in the study area based on field survey and ethno ecological knowledge for effecti...

The present study was carried out during 2012-2014 to enumerate the floristic and ecological characteristics of plants of Chail Valley, District Swat. A total of 463 species belonging to 104 families ...

The plants of the Wanda Mountain area were investigated between 2009 to 2013. The results show that Wanda Mountain has 95 families of seed plants distributed in 334 genera and 705 species. A geographi...

Numerical analysis based on seed morphological characters of 14 taxa belonging to the family Papaveraceae is carried out. Seed macro and micro morphological characters were found useful to strengthen ...

This study includes spore morphology of seven Grimmiaceae taxa from Turkey. The spores of Schistidium trichodon (Brid.) Poelt, S. confertum (Funck) Bruch & Schimp., Grimmia ovalis (Hedw.) Lindb., G. p...

Pollen morphological characters are potentially informative in the systematic of monocotyledons including (Arecaceae), at supra and infra familial level. The pollen morphology of 8 species (subfamily ...

Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis between 6 normal flower producing offshoot derived and 6 abnormal multiple carpel, flower producing tissue culture (TC) derived trees of cultivar (cv.)...

Arginase, as one of the three key enzymes in nitrogen catabolism, the physiological role of Arg catabolism in cereal crops has not been fully clarified. Studies have shown that arginase-encoding genes...

Grain size is one of the most important factors determining rice yield. Several major QTLs for grain size control have been molecular characterized, and their roles in the regulation of grain size or ...

Malate dehydrogenase (MDH) is a key enzyme that catalyzes the reversible oxidation of malate to oxaloacetate and plays a crucial role in various cellular processes, such as cell expansion, wall thicke...

Crocus sativus L. and Aloe barbadensis Mill. are well known functional ingredients in health and food products and are known for their medicinal properties as antioxidant, antidepressant, relaxant and...

Cotton fibers are unicellular seed trichomes and the largest known plant cells. Fiber morphogenesis in cotton is a complex process involving a large number of genes expressed throughout fiber developm...

In the present study, the expression patterns of the key genes in the gibberellin synthesis pathway in the potato dwarf mutant M4P-9 were detected using quantitative real-time PCR. Using Actin as an i...

‘Sotol’, a protected designation of origin alcoholic beverage, is obtained from Dasylirion cedrosanum spp. plants. There is little knowledge concerning the sexual differentiation mechanisms of thi...

Fertility variation, measured as “half-sib family coefficient”, based on number of one, two and three years cones were investigated in plantation population (PP), and a natural population (NP) of ...

Chinese wheat cultivar “Lantian 9” showed a stable high yield in the field. Together with its other desirable traits such as tolerance to cold, drought, leaf rust and stripe rust, made it a good s...

Calli derived from mature embryos of four maize varieties viz. Mohar, Khoi bhutta, Barnali and Shuvra were cultured in three basal media for regeneration (MS, N6 and 6N1) which individually supplement...

In the current study extracts of leaf, stem, fruit and calyx with different polarity was investigated for their phenolic content using high performance liquid chromatography and spectrophotometric ass...

Zingiber officinale var. Rubrum (ZOR) is cultivated for its medicinal value despite the constraints of longer life cycle. The study has established an efficient and reproducible protocol to micropropa...

Wild edible plants have a tremendous influence on human being even before civilization. These plants contain considerably high nutritional value. Present survey was conducted to explore edible wild ve...

Appropriate tillage practices are vital for good tilth that is pre-requisite for aggregate formation, soil aeration, better root development and plant growth. A field experiment of maize was carried o...

Amplified length polymorphism (AFLP) technique was used to characterize and detect molecular genetic markers for four Salsola species collected from Al Jouf region in the northern of Saudi Arabia and ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the allelopathic effects of L. siribicus extract on seed germination and seedlings growth of wheat as well as to identify potential allelochemical. The differe...

Allelopathy provides eco-friendly environment in managing weeds by reducing the use of synthetic herbicides that cause environmental pollution and herbicide resistance problems. Therefore, weeds have ...

Field experiments were conducted during summer season 2012 and consequently repeated in 2013 to assess the efficacy of row and plant spacing on weed infestation and yield of maize crop. The experiment...

Salinity stress hampers plant growth and cause significant yield losses thus induction of salinity stress tolerance in crop plants is one of major goals of agriculture research. Arbuscular mycorhizae ...

Verticillium dahliae is a soil-born fungal pathogen which causes Verticillium wilt in economically important crops including cotton. We conducted a study to monitor the interaction between the fungus ...

Associations among halotolerance, osmotolerance and exopolysaccharide (EPS) production of 50 Aureobasidium melanogenum strains isolated from various habitats along the coasts of Thailand were compared...

Plants maintain symbiotic relationships with microorganisms as a strategy to withstand adversities. From this exchange, organisms receive photoassimilates and provide benefits to the plant. Anacardium...

Acid mine drainage (AMD) and black shale (BS) are the main habitats of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. The aim of this study was to isolate and characterize sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from extreme acidic ha...

The work describes the production and characterization of tannase from a newly isolated Bacillus subtilis. The strain was isolated from the garden soil and was capable of producing tannase at particul...

Mungbean Yellow Mosaic virus (MYMV) caused by single stranded DNA begomovirus is the most potential and prevailing threat to mungbean worldwide. This study was conducted to determine genetic variation...

Ralstonia solanacearum, the causal organism of bacterial wilt of solanaceous crops is a major limitation on the production of solanaceous crops worldwide. The present studies were carried out to explo...

Algae play a very important role as feed and shelter for fish, crustacean and gastropods. Thus, this study was carried out to know dynamics of epiphytic microalgae and their host macroalgae of Floride...

Endophytic and rhizospheric fluorescent Pseudomonas have widely been used as biological control agents against soilborne plant pathogens. In this study, fifteen epiphytic fluorescent Pseudomonas isola...

Organic amendments of soil help in proper aeration, rising of temperature and water holding capacity which results in better uptake of nutrients with root system gets extensive establishment. In this ...

During a survey of basidiomycetous fungi, eight species belonging to order Boletales were collected from different parts of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The collected members of phylum Basidiomycota in...