Salt stress is a wide-reaching problem, and new strategies are required to alleviate this problem. This study was designed to define whether seed treated with plant ho...

The major proportion of chloride salts have been observed in the saline soils of Pakistan in the forms of chlorides of Na+, Ca2+ and Mg2+...

Naturally grown populations of Halophytic grass Dichanthium annulatum were collected from saline habitats for the evaluation of structural and functional adaptations in saline soils. Di...

Salinity is a major concern in agricultural areas all over the world. Aminopolysaccharide chitosan is a biopolymer that is known to increase plant tolerance against sa...

Salinity is the main threat causing huge losses in crop production all over the world. To fulfill future food demands of increasing population around the globe, production of salt tolerant genot...

The present experiment was designed to monitor growth and yield responses of a cotton genotype after applying salinity and boron stresses either alone or in combination and subsequent estimation...

Drought is the extremely critical environmental limitation that restricts crucially the leaf growth, stem elongation and overall plant growth rate. In the agricultural lands biochar has its rema...

Silicon (Si), being an important fertilizer element, has been found effective in enhancing plant tolerance against biotic and abiotic stresses. Despite many reports regarding miraculous effects ...

Stress causes a stress memory in some plants, which appears to play a vital role in responding to repeated stress conditions. However, it's uncertain whether pepper has drought stress memory...

The quantity and availability of potassium (K) are declining in soils of the world and becoming a serious issue for successful cotton production. Considerable variation for K acquisition has bee...

Plant growth regulators (PGRs) are commercially used in many countries for the enhancement of growth and better yield in various crops including wheat but in Pakistan ...

In this study, molecular, morphological and pathological characterization of postharvest fungal pathogens associated with stem end rot of mango fruit was done. A syste...

Biosaline agriculture is used for growing of salt tolerant crops by using high saline water and soils, especially in the arid lands. Halophytes, due to their high sali...

Due to agricultural mismanagement, cadmium (Cd) enrichment in cultivated soils raises concern over crop growth, productivity, and edible safety. In this present field study, the influence of sal...

Drought is associated with serious declines in crop yield. In this study, we investigated and analyzed the effect of drought on wheat yields. We considered 263,742 single nucleotide polymorphism...

Exploration of consistently high performing genotypes of cotton is important for sustainable production in major cotton growing areas of Sindh, Pakistan. In present study fifteen cotton genotype...

The aim of this study was to determine changes of amino acid levels in thirteen bread wheat genotypes during growth stages of wheat (tillering, flowering, maturity sta...

Aphid damage is one of the most critical biotic stresses limiting sorghum production, worldwide. In this study, two sterile sorghum lines having aphid-resistant (APT) and aphid-sensitive (APS) p...

Trichome is a typical single cell structure formed by the development of epidermal cells through cell fate determination, cell specialization and morphogenesis. Trichome not only protects plants...

Ascorbic and ascorbate, also known as Vitamin C, which is an essential dietary component. In present study, the concentration of vitamin C was determined in different ...

During 2017, this study was carried out to see how various fractions of fertilizer (municipal solid waste) affected food crop development, yield, quality metrics, and macronutrient content, and ...

At the beginning of any growing season, farmers’ decision for selecting a profitable crop depends mainly on marketing and marginal rate of return. Selecting high...

This research study was conducted to sort out the beneficial effects of combined use of compost with mineral fertilizer on soil properties as well as growth and nutrie...

Soil aggregates are an important component of soil and a special organic–inorganic complex. It is an important method of soil carbon sequestration, having positi...

Plant microbial pathogens destroy a significant percentage of the world’s crops annually. The most common method of combating these pathogens is with chemical microbicides which can have t...

This study was conducted in subtropical pine forests of Malakand, situated at an elevation of 762 to 1165 m asl (34˚34 ́ North-latitude & 71º54 ́ East-longitudes) in Khyber Pakhtunkh...

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This study examined the morphological traits of sixty-three (63) cocoa varieties that have been imported and cultivated in Vietnam. These cocoa varieties were collected from five regions in Sout...

The genus Pulicaria Gaertn. belongs to the tribe Inuleae Cass. and it is represented by six species P. arabica (L.) Cass., P. armena...

The present study is the first to investigate the micromorphology of leaf epidermis of 11 species of Pimpinella in China by SEM. Several species examined are covered with unbranched epi...

Understanding the consequences of urban influence on urban green gold is of paramount significance yet very complicated. The amalgamation of remote sensing and ordinat...

Coix lacryma-jobi L. var. ma-yuen Stapf has been used for the treatment of edema, dysuria, and diarrhea in traditional Chinese medicine for many year...

Dalbergia cochinchinensis, a woody legume, is a high-value timber-yielding tree that is important for both ecological and commercial purposes. To allow effici...

In this study, Alkanna orientalis var. orientalis (L.) BOISS was analyzed to determine its nutritional contents and phytoremediation potential. The plant and ...

Eight hard wheat varieties grown at different locations over three cropping years were studied for arabinoxylan (AX) contents, in terms of total arabinoxylans (TAX), water extractable arabinoxyl...

Tetracentron sinense Oliv., is the East Asian endemic species, broad-leaved tree distributed in south-central China. The current intra- and interspecific competition of T. sinense...

Rumex nervosus, a large annual herb is a member of the Polygonaceae family, It is an edible medicinal plant that shows antimicrobial and antioxidant activitie...

Poor agricultural practices and unavailability of nutritious food have developed a need to look for some non-conventional way of food production. Mushrooms and their cultivation are the best alt...

Mung bean (Vigna radiata L.), a herbaceous, annual legume pulse crop, has high nutritive and clinical values. Amongst the factors damaging to the growth and productivity of this pulse, ...

Oil yielding crops have incredible significance which influences the agribusiness of Pakistan. Present research was designed to investigate the encapsulation of medicinal seeds powder in the man...

A checklist of macrofungi of Pakistan published/cited in literature after 1997 is given. More than two hundred published articles were reviewed. In total 338 macrofung...

Fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. capsici) of reduces the yield of chilli annually. For management of this destructive disease, five plant ext...

The most common postharvest concern is fungus-caused tomato fruit rot. Produce rotting occurs between harvest and eating due to the fungus. The goal of this study was to see how well five plant ...

Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most important human pathogen frequently recovered from different clinical samples and responsible for nosocomial infect...

In this research work, key biological activities such as the anticancer, antioxidant, and phytotoxic potential of H. helix (common ivy) and M. oleifera...