The effects of salicylic acid on α-amylase (EC 3.2.1.1) activities during seed development and germination in pea (Pisum sativum L.) were investigated. The crops were planted in split-split plot fash...

The aim of the investigation was to determine the potential of citric acid for accumulation and translocation of cadmium and their effect on maize growth. The plants were grown in small plastic glasse...

In this study, we investigated the effects of exogenously applied nitric acid (NO) source i.e., sodium nitroprusside (SNP), NO scavenger i.e....

Seeds of seven wheat genotypes were subjected to 0.02 (control)...

The seeds of garden pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. climax) were exposed to full-wave rectified sumusoidal non-uniform magnetic fields of strength 60 mT...

Root morphological traits such as root surface area (RSA), root average diameter (RAD), total root length (TRL), specific root area (SRA) and specific root length (SRL) per plant of Lespedeza davurica...

The allelopathic impact of aqueous extract of 2 weeds Malva parviflora and Chenopodium murale on growth and photosynthesis of barley was investigated. The barley plants were sown in plastic pots conta...

Growth regulators have previously been documented to enhance growth and improve oil and protein content of plants. This paper documents the effects of Salicylic acid (SA) and Putrescine (Put) on growt...

A study was conducted during July 2008 to May 2009 to investigate the effects of traffic density and climatic conditions on the growth of Samanea saman (Jacq.) Merr., growing along different polluted ...

Lowland rice crop is cultivated under continuous flooding and anaerobic conditions but rhizospheric region of the rice plants can have different physico-chemical conditions than in the absence of root...

Bretschneidera sinensis, a monotypic species mainly distributed in China, was listed in National Key Protected Wild Plants as a rare and tertiary relict tree. Pollination ecology of B. sinensis was st...

Use of medicinal plants for various health disorders is a common practice especially in rural areas. Poor economic condition and lack of modern health care facilities in remote areas are the major rea...

Study was undertaken to investigate the long term and short term effect of climate change on apple production in Kotli Sattian area of Rawalpindi District, using Malus domestica var. Ambri L. as an in...

The present study was aimed to identify the most promising high yielding lentil genotype for a wide range of environments of Pakistan using 8 stability measures. The experiment consisted of 12 lentil ...

The present research study was conducted to analyze the impact of sewage water on vegetables quality with respect to heavy metals in Peshawar Pakistan. Forty samples each of soil, water and vegetables...

Global climate change is consequence of accumulating greenhouse gases (Carbon) at lower atmosphere which might affects crops growth and yield. Maize is an important summer cereals, grown on considerab...

Competition studies between maize and weed were undertaken during summer season of 2006 and 2007 at Agricultural Research Farm, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Agricultural University Peshawar, Pakistan. A Randomi...

Hydroponic experiments were conducted to study the tolerance of Populus canescens were exposed to different levels of Cd2+ (0...

A six-by-six complete Gossypium hirsutum L., diallel cross was evaluated for general and specific combining abilities in F2 generation during 2006 under drought and non drought conditions at Shah Abdu...

Lead (Pb)-treated Lens culinaris and Phaseolus mungo seedlings leaves showed considerable reduction in the size with enhance proline and phenol contents while peroxidase and lignin activity was Pb2+ d...

This study aimed atin vitro multiplication of date palm (cv. Dhakki) via direct shoot regeneration. Initially, screening of media with various supplements (activated charcoal, citric acid and ascorbic...

The oil obtained by solid phase extraction of the n-hexane fraction from stem (WO-1 and WO-2) and leaves (WO-5) of Zizyphus oxyphylla Edgew was evaluated In vitro for their antimicrobial, insecticidal...

Thirty four specimens of 14 species belonging to Cyperaceae and Poaceae growing in the vicinity of industries, agricultural fields and a combination of both were collected in and around Karachi. The s...

In order to evaluate the effect of intercropping sugar beet with oilseeds (mustard and canola) and lentil, three sugar beet varieties viz., Kaweterma, Aura and Pamela were tested against 4 intercroppi...

Genetic variation and differentiation in cloned, seed produced, and wild tea plants of Camellia sinensis var. assamica were analyzed by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers. Populatio...

Seed storage protein profiling of mung bean genotypes was performed by SDS-PAGE. Total soluble seed proteins from mung bean seeds were resolved on 12% gels in 22 protein polypeptide bands with molecul...

Optimal yield production of oil palm in Malaysia and other countries of South East Asia are hampered by the presence of devastating Basal Stem Rot (BSR) disease caused by Ganoderma boninense. For more...

Improving achene yield is the principal breeding objective for sunflower improvement and its commercial acceptance. Therefore, selection was practiced in six sunflower populations for seed yield. Step...

The sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) germplasm, comprising of 105 accessions was characterized for total seed storage proteins using sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Th...

A field experiment was conducted at Agricultural Research Farm, KPK Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan during winter 2005-2006. The treatments consisted of crop residue (stover & legume resid...

Ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) are universally distributed and known for their functional equivalence among all the known organisms. Analysis of small-subunit rRNAs (16-18S rRNAs) can permit the accurate stat...

Different genetic parameters and relationships of seed cotton yield with yield related traits were estimated among thirty upland cotton genotypes. Fuzzy seed weight and non fuzzy seed weight showed le...

Twenty four wheat varieties/lines were assessed through RAPD for genetic diversity. Of forty primers, thirteen were able to amplify the genomic DNA and yielded 269 polymorphic bands. The percentage of...

A pair of primers was designed according to the sequences published by GenBank to amplify the isopentenyl transferase gene (ipt gene) of the plasmid in Agrobacterium tumefaciens (strain C58). The 5′...

Bulbophyllum Thou. is a largest genus in Orchidaceae family and a well-known plant of tropical area. In this study original nucleotide sequence data of matures K (matK) were collected froms 53 species...

Distribution pattern, ecology and endemism of family Crassulaceae have been studied in Pakistan and Kashmir. Out of 31 taxa...

Chirita Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don are herbs of limestone while Utricularia L. are small carnivorous herbs of wet habitats. Seed testa surface has proved to provide diagnostic characters for sections Chirit...

This paper deals with physical and mechanical wood quality properties of farm-grown Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehn. in comparison to conventional timbers i.e., Dalbergia sissoo Roxb., Acacia nilotica D...

Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench) is one of the important vegetables of the tropical and subtropical areas. In Pakistan okra is cultivated on thousands of hectares but the yield obtained is re...

Eight villages in Multan district were surveyed to record incidence of disease and losses of soybean (Glycine max L.) caused by root rot fungi. The root incidence ranged 10-17% and losses ranged 6.75-...

The study was carried out to assess the virulence of 4 local and 3 exotic entomopathogenic fungal strains against mustard aphid (Lipaphis erysimi Kalt.) under laboratory and screen house conditions. A...

The seasonal dynamics in the colonization of the rhizosphere of orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) and white clover (Trifolium repens L.) pastures by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and the produc...

A new species of Tiarosporella azadarichta has been described on Azadirachta indica and some new fungal records viz., Diplozythiella bambusina, Ulocladium chartarum, Cladosporium nigrellum, Cladospori...

The main objective of this study was to produce glucoamylase under optimum conditions and to study the effect of chemical mutagenesis on Aspergillus niger for the production of glucoamylase. The maxim...

The Himalayan state, Jammu and Kashmir due to its climate ranging from tropical deciduous forests to temperate and coniferous forests provides congenial habitat for the growth of diverse macro fungal ...

Leaf and shoot tip explant of Brassica oleracea var. italica were inoculated on Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal medium supplemented with various concentrations of (BAP) and (IBA), alone and in combinat...

Cowpea and mung bean seeds pelleted with Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh parts powder including leaves, stem, pneumatophore were investigated at different intervals of 0 and after 30, 60, 90...

A harmful dinoflagellate Cochlodinium fulvescens is reported for the first time from northern boarding of Arabian Sea, Karachi, Pakistan. During a phytoplankton monitoring program between May 2002-Jul...

Ten more species of the algal genus Cosmarium Corda ex Ralfs (phylum Volvophycota Shameel) were collected from different freshwater habitats in Azad Kashmir as well as provinces of the Punjab and Khyb...

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a wild-type algal strain (CC 2137) was grown on tris acetate phosphate agar (TAP) medium. The growth curve values showed 2.0 logs till 6 days and declined thereafter. Later,...