The salt- and drought-tolerance levels of potted Populus talassica × Populus euphratica seedlings were studied under different NaCl concentrations and simulated natural drought co...

Climate change has drastically reduced the water availability which negatively impacted the cotton production. Cotton crop is sensitive to drought as it may affect its growth and development. Fo...

Cenchrus ciliaris L. (buffel grass) is a forage grass widely distributed in saline and arid regions of Pakistan. Populations of C. ciliaris were collected from ten diverse habi...

The current experiment was designed to alleviate the detrimental effects of salt stress on two varieties of Wheat i.e. Johar 2016 (V1) and Anaj 2017 (V...

Climate change increases the intensity of drought stress throughout the world. Drought stress poses serious threat to global food security by effecting the yield of field crops. In current exper...

The micronutrient deficiency during the critical growth period of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) by its controlling the plant intake of micronutrients can have a profound impact on yield, ...

Many external factors, such as climatic conditions, geographical differences, and altitude, directly affect the primary and secondary metabolites and therapeutic use of St. John's Wort (...

In this study, the effects of biostimulants on the volatile components in the stigma, macro-micro elements and heavy metals in Crocus sativus L. (saffron) leaf were investigated. The am...

Soil boron (B) deficiency has been identified in different parts of world in alkaline and low organic matter soils. However, B application is very tricky as a very sma...

‘Pineapple’ sweet orange is an important citrus species being grown at commercial scale in Pakistan. Due to inadequate supply of macro along with micronutrients, its productivity and...

Excessive and deficit foliar fertilization adversely affects pear fruit yield and its qualitative characteristics. In the present study, we investigated the impact of ...

Salinity causes disturbance in osmotic potential, imbalance in nutritional composition, and reduction in photosynthesis that reduces whole-plant growth and development...

Pollen irradiation technique has emerged as a novel tool to induce parthenogenesis. Round shaped guava cultivars including white flesh ‘Gola’, pink flesh ‘Surkha’ and pyr...

The present study was to evaluate variation in growth, physiological characteristics of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) exposed to different LEDs. Seed...

The study's goal is to assess the energy balance of fodder pea crop production.and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission under Muş conditions, Turkey in 2020. Basic information such as the economic...

The titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) are widely used in several fields of Science and Technology, trailed to increase concentration in soil with their subsequent accumulation...

Worldwide, maize is a common cereal crop and likewise in Pakistan. Zinc is essentially vital for optimum growth and development of crops. Deficiency of Zn is prevalent in Pakistan. In order to d...

Plant regeneration was achieved by culturing sterile hypocotyl segments, and mature zygotic embryos (MZE) of S. longipedunculata Fresen excised from sterile seeds. In this study, de-coa...

DOG1 (DELAY OF GERMINATION 1) is a specific gene related to seed dormancy and the expression level determines the depth of seed dormancy. However, the site and dynamics of ...

CYCLOPHILIN71 (AtCYP71), a multidomain cyclophilin, has been demonstrated to participate in many aspects of development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Loss of AtCYP...

The above-ground plant material and root mass of eight winter vetch genotypes (Vicia villosa Roth) varieties were studied. As a method of study and evaluation, the ecological and geneti...

Five kinds of Citrus L. were collected from Sheringal, Dir Upper, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan, and their fruits, branches, and leaves were used to identify their correct nomencla...

In this study, HPLC analyses of total extract prepared with aqueous methanol, butanol fraction, and water fraction of Cephalaria duzceënsis N.Aksoy & Göktürk (Caprifo...

The effect of variable availability of soil water in natural ecosystems on structural features of roots in differently adapted populations of Datura stramonium was evaluated. ...

This work amid to estimate the garden flora's composition and richness, and to determine to what extent they provide habitat for alien species, in addition to focu...

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its sixth assessment report (AR-6) has documented that the atmosphere, ocean, and land have been warmed at an unprecedented rate as per histor...

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Forests are the natural resources which produce timber, fuel wood, habitats for wildlife, conserve water and reduce soil erosion. The natural forests of Pakistan are declining at an alarming rat...

Thawr and Eir mountains are two of the main important and historical mountains in the region of Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah. However, floristic studies on these mountains ...

Heliotropium curassavicum L., of the family Boraginaceae is the only glabrous species from Pakistan. The species exhibits autogamous mode of reproduction while, the value of pollen&ndas...

Leaf epidermal micromorphological characters were examined using light and scanning electron microscopes in 43 taxa belonging to 30 genera of Brassicaceae. The cell cu...

Chesneya is a genus in the tribe Caraganeae (Papilionideae: Fabaceae) represented in Pakistan by 7 species. The genus is mainly distributed in Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunk...

Epimedium jinfoshanensis H.P. Deng & Y.W. Zuo, sp. nov. from Nanchuan, Chongqing, China, is described, illustrated and compared with rel...

Host range and host preferences of Dendrophthoe falcata and Scurrula pulverulenta were studied in the Himalayan foothills region of Potohar plateau, ...

Anthracnose is one of the major constraints to chilli production globally, especially in tropical and subtropical regions. Exact identification of Colletotrichum ...

The detection of fungi contaminating maize grain and the effect of four plant extracts Azadirachta indica, Eucalyptus globulus Glycyrrhiza glabra and Zingiber officinale on the...

The goal of this study is to evaluate the antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities of various leaf extracts (methanolic extract, chloroform fraction (1), chloroform fraction (2), ethyl a...

The current study describes the biosynthesis of L-phenylacetylcarbinol (L-PAC) by Torulaspora delbrueckii using molasses in shake flasks. The yeast isolates were screened for temperatur...

The roots of the Himalayan alder were sampled from the rhizosphere and were investigated for ectomycorrhizal association. We described 11 ectomycorrhizal species viz; Amphinema sp. MHBY...

The present research aims to study the species diversity, abundance and spatial distribution of diatom from the coastal waters of Sindh coast (Sandspit) and Baluchistan coast (Gadani ship breaki...

In plants, the most prevalent and significant phenomenon is DNA methylation. De novo methylation in plant genome is generally lower than in animals. Natural environments controlled by b...