Dr. Jaffar Hussain Mirza s/o Mirza Safdar Husain Qazilbash, an eminent Plant pathologist, died of heart attack on 01 June 2011. May God almighty shower His blessings upon the departed soul and may hi...

Campanula lyrata Lam. and C. sorgerae Phitos, C. betonicifolia Sm. and C. karadjana Bocquet are taxonomically problematic. In the present study, their morphology, leaf surface anatomy and palynologica...

Angelica kaghanica M.Ishtiaq & R.A.Qureshi sp.nov. from Kaghan valley is described, photographed and fruit vittae distribution pattern illustrated. It is closely related to Angelica roylei (Lindley) P...

The genus Lactuca L. of the tribe Cichorieae-Asteraceae is taxonomically revised from Pakistan and Kashmir. The revsion is based on study of large number of herbarium specimens. In fews cases plants h...

Manglietia kaifui Q.W. Zeng & X. M. Hu, a new species of Manglieta Bl. (Magnoliaceae) from Yunnan, China, is described and illustrated. The new species was found growing only in the monsoon evergreen ...

Foliar anatomical investigations of some members belonging to tribe Eragrostideae (Poaceae) were carried out. In total of 8 species belonging to 6 genera were collected in wild from Salt Range region ...

Genetic diversity of ten selected wild species belonging to family Poaceae was assessed by using RAPD markers. The species consisted of Tragus roxburgii, Eragrostis poaeoides, Brachiaria distachya, Da...

The taxonomic relocation of both Trigonella cylindraceae and T. polyceratia either to Trigonella or Medicago was assessed based on two molecular markers, RAPD and RFLP. Through RAPD analysis...

Asclepiadaceae is an economically important family with great medicinal value. However, very little work has been carried out on the genetic variability of Asclepiadaceae members especially on some me...

2 , ABLIMIT ABDUKADIR1, RAHMATULLAH QURESHI3 AND GHULAM MUSTAFA2...

Phytochemical investigation of Eremurus persicus collected from the Kirbi Kuch Ziarat, Pakistan led to the isolation of an antimalarial compound 2-acetyl-1-hydroxy-8-methoxy-3-methylnaphthalene, (comp...

Present study was conducted in Ayubia National Park which was declared as a protected/National Park. The study classified the species abundance and its distribution. A total of 59 species that belonge...

Vegetational zonation within temporal ponds in the western Taurus Mountains of South – West Anatolia, Turkey and changes along altitudinal gradients was studied. Two gradients show different filter...

Plant group classification relation to soil environmental characteristics was monitored in Hangzhou Bay coastal wetland, China. 18 taxa, belonging to 17 genus and 7 family were recorded, and classifie...

Quantitative and qualitative characteristics of floristic diversity at species level along environmental gradients were measured using a randomly stratified design for identifying major plant communit...

The roadside verges of M-3 were surveyed to investigate their floristic composition and the levels of heavy metals in their soils. For this purpose, the floristic data from 102 quadrats, each 1x2 m in...

The conservation status of Ruellia linearibracteolata Lindau (Acanthaceae), originally considered as endemic to Pakistan, was assessed after four years (2005-2008) of extensive field studies strictly ...

A set of 22 F5:7 experimental wheat lines along with four check cultivars (Dera-98, Fakhr-e-Sarhad, Ghaznavi-98 and Tatara) were evaluated as independent experiments under irrigated and rainfed enviro...

Germination percentage of a newly introduced exotic plant, Parthenium hysterophorus L., that has now dominated most of the herbaceous flora, was compared with 7 annual indigenous colonizer plants, com...

2SEEMA GHULAM, 3ZAMAN SHER AND BASHIR AHMAD4...

Water shortage seriously influences wheat productivity in various growing regions.The response of two wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) accessions viz., 011417 and 011320 to drought and exogenously applied...

In the present study the effect of rare earth element Praseodymium (Pr) on flavonoids production and its biosynthesis key enzymes including Peroxidase (POD; EC 1.11.1.7), Polyphenol oxidase (PPO; EC 1...

Little work has been done on potassium (K) and zinc (Zn) in combination with farm yard manure (FYM) under rainfed conditions of NWFP. This study was designed to examine the effects of un-irrigated cro...

Experiments were carried out to investigate the physiological (dry weight of root, stem, peg, flowers plant-1, fruits sets percent, pod yield (kg plot-1)...

Response of six different upland cotton genotypes to various nitrogen levels (0, 50...

Cadmium (Cd) and chromium (Cr) concentrations were investigated in six different forage species, i.e., Trifolium alexandrium, Cichorium intybus, Avena sativa, Medicago polymorpha, Brassica campestris ...

Young leaves of Cornukaempferia aurantiflora Mood & Larsen were used for the initiation of callus growth on Murashige Skoog medium supplemented with 3% sucrose and various concentrations of 2,4-dichlo...

The present study deals with the micrpropagation and callogenesis of Ricinus communis, a medicinally important but recalcitrant plant species. Different media were evaluated for the micropropagation a...

Three sugarcane clones viz., NIA-98, NIA-0819 and BL4 were used for induction of genetic variability through In-vitro mutagenesis. Apical meristametic region was used for callus induction on 4mg/l 2,4...

An efficient culture medium for In vitro clonal propagation of banana cultivars was established. Meristamtic tips of Basrai and GCTCV-215 were irradiated with different doses of gamma rays viz., 0...

Nutrient disorders in saline-sodic soils can adversely affect crop growth. In order to evaluate the growth response of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to Cu and Zn and the phytoavailability of these esse...

The cytogenetic effects of dichlorvos on Hordeum vulgare L. seeds were investigated. Seeds of H. vulgare were treated with different concentrations of dichlorvos and applied for increasing concentrati...

The purpose of the research study is to select the best rice explant and variety for Agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation studies. In vitro callus induction and regeneration frequency of two ...

Seed morphology of 11 taxa of the genus Impatiens L. belonging to the family Balsaminaceae, was investigated using light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The variation in macro and micro morpho...

Application of silicon (Si) to soil is considered as an alternative approach to alleviate salinity stress in crop plants. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of Si a...

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2*, Chunming Shi1, 3, Yongbo Liu1 , Jinlong Zhang1, Qibing Zhang1 and Keping Ma1...

Water stress susceptibility index (WSSI) and stomatal conductance were used to determine the stress tolerance of 10 upland cotton cultivars during 2009 at Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakis...

Twenty wheat lines were tested for drought tolerance in terms of relative chemical composition and physical properties of grains. These wheat lines were selected on the basis of maintaining their phot...

Plant breeders in Pakistan mostly relied upon phenotypic traits as indices of genetic variation among different varieties which may genotypically be closely related or vice versa. The main objective o...

Growing chickpea in sustainable systems requires the use and development of more adaptable genotypes which can adjust to the package of technology in vogue. Legumes are poor competitors with weeds. He...

Five loquat genotypes were studied at Horticultural Research Sub-station Tret, Murree, Pakistan. Randomized Complete block Design was used and data was analysed statistically. Significant differences ...

Genetic variation of forty-nine local and exotic radish genotypes including two checks was studied for morphological traits and seed storage protein electrophoresis using sodium dodecylsulphate polyac...

Genetic diversity was assessed in a set of twelve sugarcane genotypes using Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD). A total of thirty-two oligo-primers were employed, sixteen of them revealed amplifi...

Genetic activity of Ph1 (pairing homoeologous) gene on the long arm of chromosome 5B, blocks chromosome pairing during meiosis in related genomes thus hindering the improvement in wheat on one hand bu...

The rice FAE encodes protein for fatty acids elongation to form very long chain fatty acids (VLCFAs), which are the intermediates for wax biosynthesis. Agrobacterium- mediated transgenic tobacco plant...

In the present investigation, 30 varieties of wheat were used to study their resistance against Red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst).The grains of all these varieties were obtained from Plan...

In quantitative genetics, development of high yielding genotypes from parental cultivars of same ancestry is some what confusing as compared to genetically diverse parents. However, sufficient recombi...

A study was carried out to investigate the monthly variations in planktonic life of river Chenab as affected by sewage of Multan City by analyzing frequency of occurrence, relative abundance and diver...

Soil moisture availability at planting time of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is critical and can delay sowing if moisture is insufficient in a typical rainfed area. Shortening of vegetative growth (pos...

Trichoderma harzianum and plant growth promotory rhizobacteria Pseudomonas fluorescens were tested alone and in combinations for their relative biocontrol potential against many soil-borne plant patho...

The inhibitive effects of garlic bulb crude extract on Fulvia fulva in tomato were studied both In vitro and pot experiment. The results indicated that, the inhibitive rate to spore germination reache...

Pathogenic fungi of drinking water have potentially prevailing effects on human beings. Mycofloral study of drinking water of district Bhimber, Azad Kashmir was conducted through systematic sampling a...

The present study deals with the microbial biosynthesis of lipases by a strain of Bacillus sp. Fifteen strains were isolated from oily products. These strains were screened for the production of lipas...

Mungbean germplasm comprising 262 lines was evaluated for resistance and susceptibility of MYMV and ULCV. Data on 9 quantitative characters viz., branches per plant, Pod length, pods per plant, seeds ...

The staining capacity of Berberis pachyacantha Kochne extract on histological sections of angiosperms stem was determined. A yellow pigment extracted from the powder of dried stem of B. Pachyacantha w...

Genetic control of late blight (LB) and some economic traits was assessed to identify genotypes suitable for the development of late blight resistant hybrids in tomato. 10 F1 hybrids were derived from...

In order to determine Fusarium species associated with wheat heads, 95 spike samples were collected from different geographic regions and wheat growing areas in the southwest, west, northwest and nort...

The aim of this study was to analyze and evaluate antimicrobial potential of medicinal plants obtained from kacha area of river indus, that are used as ingredients of traditional medicine for treatmen...

During the studies performed, a rare species known as decaying fungi was collected from Derebucak district (Konya) between 2005-2006, from altitude 1800 m. In the end of the laboratory process, this r...

Eighty seven different strains belonging to seven different types of thermophilic-cellulolytic fungi such as Aspergillus fumigatus, Chaetomium thermophile var. dissitum, Humicola grisea var. thermoide...

Sclerotium rolfsii showed significant negative effect on plant growth due to severe root colonization, whereas, presence of the microbial antagonists showed significant positive effect on plant growth...

The present study was conducted to compare effective method of inoculation, inoculum concentration and application of agrochemicals for evaluating BLB resistance/ aggressiveness and management of BLB ...

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Giemsa N-banding pattern in some tetraploid taxon of Hordeum murinum was studied. An ideogram was developed for each studied taxon of Hordeum murinum for the description of individual N-bands. N-bande...

Genotype ´ environment interaction (G x E) is a major constraint to identify single superior genotype for a number of variable environments. In order to quantify G ´ E interaction effect on grain yi...