Eight new species of Verbascum L., from Saudi Arabia viz., Verbascum abyadicum F.M. AI-Hemaid, V asiricum F.M. AI-Hemajd, V chaudharyanum F.M. AI-Hemaid, V hema-figranum F.M. AI-Hemaid, V medinecum F....

The pollen morphology of 45 species...

Seventeen species of green, brown and red seaweeds collected from Manora, Buleji and Paradise Point near Karachi coast of Pakistan were analyzed for their elemental composition with the help of Perkin...

Cystotrichiopsis gen.nov., and C. salvadorae sp.nov., on Salvadora oleoides is described, illustrated and compared with related taxa....

Spore germination of Uromyces striatus, the cause of leaf rust on lucerne was significantly reduced on tap water agar (TWA) pieces containing different doses (1...

The production of phytoalexins and phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) was measured in resistant and susceptible varieties of chickpea after inoculation with Ascochyta rabiei. The pterocarpan phytoalexi...

Effect of two sowing methods i.e., ridge and flat sowing and different herbicides viz., pendimethalin (Stomp 330E) @ 1.03 kg a.i.ha-¹, pendimethalin (Stomp 445SC) @ 0.89 & 1.11 kg a.i.ha-¹ and s-met...

Fate of the fertilizer-N applied to irrigated wheat grown after cotton harvest was studied under field conditions using 15N-balance method. Of the total urea-N applied (100 kg ha-1), 47.7 kg N ha-1 wa...

A water culture experiment was conducted to study the growth and ions relations in four cultivars of soybean (Glycine max L., cv. Loppa, Egyptian, AGS-160 and ICAL-132) over a range of salinity (10-40...

The direct utilization of heterosis in legumes is limited due to cleistogamous nature of their flower. However, information on genetic parameters such as heterosis, heritability and genetic Ann. advan...

Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum L.) cultivar Ben Sark was multiplied using meristem culture up to 16 generations. The leaves from each generation/subculture were collected and used to isolate DNA. RAPD-PCR...

Secondary somatic embryogenesis from 33 Citrus cultivars was studied with 0, 3, 6, 9 and 12 Kr doses of gamma radiation. Somatic embryogenesis and radiation sensitivity was cultivar dependent. Kinnow,...

The objective of the present study was to find out the extent of genetic diversity among the 4 lentil cultivars viz., Masur-85, Masur-93, an exotic variety Precos (introduced in NWFP, Pakistan as Mans...

Seasonal variation in water relations and nutrient content of six Avicennia marina populations in various creeks of the Arabian Sea near Karachi, Pakistan was studied. Extra nutrients, both in sedimen...