Wild edible plants are crucial resources with multipurpose uses and indigenous people have ethnobotanical knowledge of their use and management. Ximenia americana L., is among the preferred multipurpo...

Lilium candidum L., was cultivated and has been used for different purposes like medical, cosmetics, commercial for thousands of years. It was naturally distributed around the city of Balıkesir (in M...

Ethnobotany provides a scientific rationale to identify medicinally important plant species, especially for finding new drugs that play vital role in the treatment of different diseases. This ethnobot...

The antimicrobial potential of alcoholic extract and various fractions of Xanthium strumarium (XS) and Duchesnea indica (DI) against different strains of bacteria and fungi was investigated. The chlor...

Medicinal plants naturally harbor a variety of microorganisms. Besides, representing a direct health hazard to the consumer, these contaminated materials can cause the spoilage of pharmaceuticals and ...

The In vitro antibacterial activity of Leptadenia pyrotechnica roots and fruits extracts was investigated against Staphylococcus epidermidis and S. aureus by using agar-well diffusion assay. Plant sam...

In this study the pistil structure of loquat (Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.) was investigated for the first time through free-hand section and observation on seed set under manually controlled p...

Taxonomic study of the trichomes of 6 species of genus convolvulus has been carried out by usind Light Microscope and Scanning Electron Microscope. Variation in trichome density on different parts has...

A study was conducted in Ayubia National Park to explore the species response correlation with environmental gradients. Multivariate Analysis was applied to dataset to quantify the vegetation of study...

Cat Dua Island (namely Monkey Island) is situated in the Gulf of Tonkin, belonging to the Quang Ninh Province in Vietnam. A total vascular flora of 88 species belonging to 44 families and 76 genera wa...

The relationships between seed yield and plant growing conditions of 6 populations that were grown in typical habitats were studied in Junggar basin. Correlation analysis indicated that seed yield (M)...

The present studies comprise the distribution of important flavonoids amongst the selected 13 medicinal plants viz., Woodfordia fruticosa, Adhatoda vasica, Chenopodium ambrosoides, Viburnum cotinifoli...

For the discrimination of tea germplasm at the inter-specific level...

Medicinal plants Apocynum venetum L. and Poacynum pictum (Schrenk) Baill. having similar efficacy belong to two genera. However, many similarities of morphological characteristics in pollen, seeds, le...

Random amplified polymorphic DNA technique (RAPD) was used to determine the finger print of 10 isolates of Alternaria alternata collected from First Fungal Culture Bank of Pakistan (FCBP), Institute o...

It is more difficult in plants than in animals to distinguish between species using barcoding loci, thus it is vital to investigate the barcoding potential of various chloroplast (cp) regions besides ...

Sinocalycanthus chinensis, narrowly endemic to China, is a tertiary relict species. We analyzed the genetic structure pattern of 6 populations of S. chinensis using inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR)...

In the present study, the induced variability caused by gamma rays in agronomic traits comprising plant height, days to flowering, days to maturity, number of fruits/plant, number of seeds/fruit...

18S ribosomal RNA (18S rRNA) has been used as housekeeping gene for normalization in gene expression studies of plants. Recently, the effect of experimental conditions and nature of samples have been ...

Interspecific crosses of Brassica species were evaluated to identify desirable genotypes for yield and associated traits. Parent al species included Brassica napus (Dunkled, Maluko, line A-20-20), B. ...

A collection of thirty-four chickpea genotypes, including five kabuli and twenty-nine desi, were analyzed by SDS-PAGE for seed storage protein profiling. Total soluble seed proteins were resolved on 1...

To study the effects of electromagnetic fields of high-tension lines on plants...

Detailed karyotypes of 4 lily species (Lilium regale, L. duchartrei, L. brownii var viridium and L. leucanthum var. centifolium), native to Qinling Moutains in China, were constructed on the basis of ...

Pollen morphology of 40 species representing 13 genera of the family Chenopodiaceae from Pakistan has been examined by light and scanning electron microscope. Chenopodiaceae is a stenopalynous family....

Fifty rice genotypes originating from hybridization and induced mutagenesis along with some commercial varieties were subjected to diversity analysis for selection of desirable genotypes and subsequen...

Effect of nutrient solutions viz., KNO3, H3BO3, Fe EDTA, and their mixture applied through foliar spray on growth and water relation was assessed in sunflower and safflower plants under salt stress. S...

Turfgrasses range from extremely salt sensitive to highly salt tolerant. Turfgrass improvement for salinity tolerance requires reliable assessment for their adaptability to saline conditions, which va...

In order to study the effect of water deficit stress at different growth stages and N fertilizer levels on morphological traits, yield and yield components of maize cv. Single Cross 704, an experiment...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small, non-coding RNA. They are about 21 nucleotides in length, produced endogenously and negatively regulate gene regulation. The most miRNAs showed conserved nature...

Pre-anthesis assimilation of stem reserves is considered as an important source for grain filling during post anthesis abiotic stresses that inhibit photosynthesis. Twenty one Pakistani wheat genotype...

In urban environments, the main sources of emission of particular matters can be listed as follows: Emissions due to heavy traffic and industrial activities; emissions from power stations, local heati...

The relationship between soil seed reserves and degree of infestation by common weed species (Avena fatua L., Convolvulus arvensis L., Cyperus rotundus Pers., Fumaria parviflora Lamk., Phalaris minor ...

Fruit shape is one of the most important quality factors in many domesticated plants. In this study, we used bulked segregate analysis (BSA) to identify two sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SR...

In vitro protocol for efficient plant regeneration has been developed from Thai indica rice cultivar (Oryza sativa L. cv. KDML105). Embryogenic callus was initiated from mature seeds on NBMI medium. T...

This study was conducted to explore the role of different phosphorus (P) levels and application methods in improving wheat grain yield, P uptake and phosphorus use efficiency (PUE) on calcarious soils...

A greenhouse experiment was conducted to compare maize (Zea mays L.) and dhaincha (Sesbania aculeata L.) in terms of biomass accumulation (especially root proliferation) and efficiency of N uptake fro...

Drought stress (DS) usually causes a serious yield reduction in maize production. Nitrogen (N) has been reported to be able to alleviate DS damage in previous studies; however, which N form is benefic...

HBsAg M gene–modified tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasifarm) had been constructed by Agrobacterium tumefaciens–mediated transformation. We obtained one line (N244) of transgenic mutant...

Zea mays ssp. mexicana, a wild relative of cultivated maize (Z. mays ssp. mays), is a useful gene resource for maize breeding. In this study, two populations were generated by conventional breeding sc...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effect of inoculating maize (Zea mays L. Azam) with Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in 2 different series of North West Pakistan during the year 2007. Dat...

The aim of the present investigation was to determine the effect of exogenously applied salicylic acid (SA) on physiology of maize (Zea mays L.) hybrid cv. 3025 grown in saline field (pH 8.4 and EC 4....

The effect of application of gum arabic edible coating on weight loss, firmness and sensory characteristics was investigated for cucumber fruits. Cucumber was coated with gum arabic at different conce...

In this study, a one-step PCR protocol was developed for rapid and accurate detection of the pathogen Fusarium oxysporum in infected cucumber plants and soil. The primers Fc-1 and Fc-2 were designed a...

We investigated plant growth promoting activity of roots inhabiting endophytic fungi in order to evaluate their role in the survival of host plants under extreme sand dune environment of coastal regio...

Dictyopteris polypodioides (Dc.) Lamouroux, a thin and flexuous brown alga, was collected from the Arabian Sea coast at Karachi during March 2008 and investigated for its morphology, anatomy and repro...

This is the first detailed record of Pseudo-nitzschia species including their seasonal abundance and taxonomic identification from coastal waters of Pakistan bordering northern Arabian Sea. As reporte...

The species of Agaricus silvicola is characterize by first convex cap then flat, expended with white fibrous scales. Gills grayish pink when young, then gray-brown, then chocolate brown. Grayish Stipe...

A survey of two aromatic grasses Cymbopogon jwarancusa and Veteviria zizanioides was conducted to determine the morphological diversity of mycorrhiza collected from various habitats of southern Punjab...

The present investigation deals with bioassays of methanol extract of leaves (ML), methanol extract of flowers (MF), chloroform extract of leaves (CL) and chloroform extract of flowers (CF) of Artemis...