Global climate change is one of the most important environmental problems, and it is also known that this change will lead to negative effects such as drought and incr...

Drought is known as an important restricting factor of plant productivity in arid and semi arid areas of the world. The intended increase of temperature in many areas ...

Global warming and unexpected climatic change especially increased in temperature and drought incidence were forced the agri- scientist to develop long term future strategies required for all dr...

Members of the Arabidopsis cell wall-associated kinase (WAK) family play important roles in both development and stress responses. There are about one hundred and twenty fiveOsWAKs...

Alkaline salts are more harmful to plants than neutral salts. Improvement on the alkaline tolerance in plants is important to make full use of the large area of saline-alkaline water. It has bee...

Salinity is an important environmental constraint for agricultural crops including wheat. This experiment was performed to examine salinity tolerance in synthetic hexa...

Shape changes in wheat grain under heat stress become necessary to determine when shrinkage causes quality loss. High throughput seed morpho-metery is required to quan...

Both threats and interest are the reasons for studying conservation and restoration programs of yew species. The seedling growth rate of slowly-growing species has bee...

The growth characteristics, photosynthetic gas exchange features, physiological and biochemical resistance, and soil nutrition contents of different juvenile mixed plantations were analyzed. Mor...

We subjected Halostachys caspica populations to three groundwater depths: shallow (< 2.5 m), middle (2.5–4.5 m), and deep (> 4.5 m) in the sample plots, at the diluvial fan ...

We characterized the responses of plant dry biomass, nitrogen (N) distribution and N-utilization efficiency (NUtE) to changes in CO2 concentration through exposure and culture of wint...

Masson pine (Pinus massoniana) is especially good at accumulating manganese (Mn). Studying the manganese accumulation and anatomical changes in masson pine gr...

In this study, 9 new combinations, 6 at species level and 3 at varietal level in the tribe Cichoreae have been proposed from Pakistan and Kashmir. Of these, seven taxa, previously placed in Cicerbita ...

The genus Soliva of family Asteraceae is first time reported for the flora of Pakistan. Soliva anthemifolia (Juss.) Sweet and Soliva pterosperma (Juss.) Less have been reported...

Scorzonera baluchistanica R. Mehdi, R. Abid & M. Qaiser is presented as a new species from Pakistan. Its detail description with illustration and a comparison...

Several species of Cassia are used in Thai folk medicine as a laxative and a treatment for skin infections. However, the taxonomy of the GenusCassia is quite complex and intrig...

As part of the karyological studies of the Asparagaceae grow in the KahramanmaraÅŸ province, chromosome number and chromosomes morphology of three Bellevalia...

Pinus wallichiana dominated forest communities, located in the Hindukush ranges of Swat, Pakistan were analysed for variability in the cone and seed traits. The results disclosed signif...

This study investigated the floristic composition and vegetation structure among different physiognomies in Ibodi Monkey forest, Ibodi, Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria. It also assessed the eff...

Shannon-Wiener index and Simpson′s diversity index together with other metrics, e.g., richness, number of stems per species or species-specific density (N: S ratio), and kurtosis, were app...

Mangroves in Peninsular Malaysia are typical of tropical forest setting. Nevertheless, the state of the mangrove forests has led to various classifications; natural and degraded mangroves. The s...

The conservation status of Rhododendron afghanicum Aitch. & Hemsl. (Ericaceae) has been evaluated according to IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria 2001. This species is exclusivel...

Evolution has great ecological significance in terms of plant morphological and stomatal characteristics that must have been genetically fixed during the long evolutio...

Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L. Taub.) being a  summer annual legume is widely grown in some Asian countries primarily for three major purposes, i.e., cattle forage,  as a gr...

Bulblets of Lycoris sprengeri (Amaryllidaceae) were obtained by cutting. Sixconcentrations of N-(2-chloro-4-pyridyl)-N1-phenylurea (CPPU) solutions were sprayed on leaves from one-year-...

Due to random exploitation from natural resources, an efficient regeneration system of medicinally important but rare plant species, Atropa acuminata for conservation was inevitable. Le...

The stem diameter is an important parameter describing the growth of tomato plant during vegetative growth stage. A stem diameter growth model was developed to predict the response of plant grow...

Impermeability of Legume seeds is commonly related to physicaldormancy, which is useful for seed preservation but problematical for the soybean food industry. The prim...

This study was to analyze the difference of the metabolite profiles between non-transgenic (TP309-8) and human serum albumin (HSA) transgenic rice (TP309-HSA-8, TP309-...

The genus Perilla, known as an oil crop or a Chinese medicine, vegetable crop, is widely cultivated in East Asia. It occurs in two distinct varieties, var. ...

In this study, genome DNA and RNAof fad2 genes from three types of oleic acid content from B. napus were isolated by PCR amplification, respectively, the results showed that no...

Sugarcane varietal development program in Pakistan primarily depends on evaluation of imported genotypes because of the unfavorable climatic conditions for sugarcane flowering and hybridization ...

The present study was carried out to evaluate essential oil contents found in the fruit peelings of the two varieties of Mango (Mangifera indica L.), belongin...

Investigation of susceptibility of medicinal plants for bacterial pathogens is significant for suitable choice of treatment. Different solvent extracted samples of ...

Allelopathy is an important ecological mechanism in nature, which is extensively investigated and acknowledged as an innate characteristic. Less is known how the direc...

Asthma and allergic rhinitis is triggered by the pollen of trees, grasses and weeds. Guaiacum officinale L. tree is widely cultivated along with the road side. This species was selected...

Littleseed canarygrass (Phalaris minor) infests wheat and other winter crops in Pakistan and many other countries. Studies were conducted in Pakistan to confirm littleseed canarygrass r...

The diversity of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) in the rhizosphere plays a key role in the maintenance of sustainable agricultural system. In this study, samples were obtained from ...

The Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus) cultivation is a profitable agribusiness and having high significance due its nutritive and therapeutic value. Due to deficien...

Salinity is one of the most crucial problems for sustainable agriculture which is severely affecting crop growth and decreasing the food production. On another hand, burgeoning population in the...

To determine interactive effects of added copper (Cu) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) inoculation on the photosynthesis of Elsholtzia splendens, a greenhouse pot experiment was c...

Halotolerant bacteria having 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC)-deaminase activity were isolated from wheat rhizosphere and further screened for their plant growth promoting potentials in ...

Potato is the main cash crop of Gilgit-Baltistan in particular of buffer zone of Central Karakorum National Park (CKNP). There are many biotic and abiotic threats to i...

Leishmaniasis is one of the globally neglected tropical disease cause by protozoan parasite of the genus Leishmania. In Pakistan, cutaneous leishmaniasis is more sporadic in the Afghan refugee c...

The present study employed the response surface methodology (RSM), a statistical technique, for the identification, screening and optimization of fermentation factors ...

Twelve soil samples were collected from fields of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) tunnels from various localities of Lahore and Shekhupura districts, Pakistan. Soil samples were analyzed ...

The use of resistant varieties is an effective, economic and environment friendly management of plant diseases particularly those caused by viruses. This paper reports, evaluation of 21 differen...

The fungal pathogens were isolated from the affected samples of Chilli plants collected from different areas of Sindh. The affected fruits/pods of chilli were collected from the centrally locate...

A series of field surveys were carried out during July-October 2012-14 for the development of disease distribution map and updating the index of Myrothecium leaf spot of Momordica c...

Two widely cultivated mango fruit varieties White chounsa and Sindhri were collected from two major mango growing areas of Punjab and Sindh Provinces of Pakistan. This study was focused on patho...

Melon wilt disease is a soil-borne disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum. This disease incur of the heavy economic loss in melon crops. To decrease damage to melon...