Pollen morphology of 20 species representing 7 genera viz., Datura, Lycium, Hyoscymus, Nicotiana, Physalis, Solanum and Withania of the family Solanaceae from Pakistan has been examined by light and s...

The present study is confined to the plynological study of the Salix L., of Pakistan. In this study the genus Salix L., has shown the different shapes of the pollen grains, such as the circular, ellip...

A survey of weeds of cotton fields from 8 Talukas of the district Khairpur has been carried out during 1999-2001. Thirty-six weed species belonging to 16 families are reported. The weed communities we...

The aims of this paper are the study of plants, traditionally employed by inhabitants of Sudhan Gali and Ganga Chotti Hills, district Bagh, Azad Kashmir. Various threrapeutic applications of 33 plant ...

Medicinally important plants are necessary for the production of the various drugs and curing diseases. The local people use 26 species of the vascular plants of the Mianwali district for medicine, fu...

The present study includes indigenous knowledge of selected medicinal wild plants of District Attock. This study is mainly focused on traditional uses of plants of the area used by local people. For e...

Ethnobotanical survey conducted in Mahal Kohistan (Khirthar National Park) revealed that the local people use 50 species of plants in traditional health care system and miscellaneous uses. Plants have...

Euphorioxylon thanobolensis sp.nov., a new silicified wood has been described from Tertiary Manchhar formation exposed near Thanobola khan, district Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan. The xylotomical features...

Shoreoxylon ranikotensis sp. nov. a new silicified wood fossil has been described from Quaternary deposits of Dada formation exposed near Ranikot fort area, district Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan. (Lat. 2...

Anogeissoxylon rehmanense sp.nov., a new silicified wood is described from Tertiary deposits of Bara formation exposed near Rehman dhoro district Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan. The xylotomical features of...

Yield and its component studies were conducted for semi-dwarf F6 wheat breeding material. Sixteen genotypes and two checks viz., Sarsabz and Kiran-95 were selected for these studies. The data recorded...

Yield and yield component studies were conducted for 15 advanced lines/genotypes including three check varieties viz. Sarsabz, Kiran-95 and Soghat-90. The data were recorded for the plant height, days...

Pot studies were conducted to observe the effect of indigenous plants such as Prosopis glandulosa, Cassia angustifolia, Azadirechta indica and Sphaeranthus indicus on the growth, yield & quality param...

Forty-three mungbean genotypes/accessions were studied for association of seed yield per plant with some important morphological traits i.e., lower node of the pod bearing peduncle, nodes on main stem...

Mothbean crop has entirely been eliminated from the Punjab and NWFP provinces while it is very rarely and partially grown in some part of Sindh and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan with very poor yie...

Mothbean is severely attacked by Yellow Mosaic Virus (YMV) disease. The virus is considered to be transmitted through vector whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci Genn) a sucking insect of Vigna group. The only ...

Genetic exploitation through induced mutations has been very instrumental in improvement of crops. Genetic diversity in lentil was created in a local variety Masoor- 85 and exotic cultivar ICARDA- 8 b...

Consumption of cut flowers is going to increase day by day in Pakistan. It is related with the rising living standards, education and electronic media that have promoted this business in recent years....

Micropropagation of guava through shoot tip culture from five years old bearing plants was carried out at Nuclear Institute for Food & Agriculture, Peshawar. Shoot tips after sterilization was culture...

Seeds of the 2 local desi chickpea varieties viz., Pb-91and C-44 were irradiated through gamma rays at 200 and 300 Gy doses during the year 2000. The M1 to M4 generations were raised from 2000-2001 to...

The estimation of heritability of important agronomic characters has a great significance with selection for superior genotypes. A field experiment was conducted to evaluate 7 F4 progenies of bread wh...

A field experiment was conducted at Nuclear Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Peshawar, to identify high yielding bread wheat genotypes against terminal heat stress in the central agro ecolog...

An experiment was laid out in complete block design with three replications at the department of Botany, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan during 2007 for assessing the performance of com...

Callus cultures were initiated from leaf and hypocotyl explants isolated from 4 days old seedling of Jatropha curcas L., on Murashige & Skoog (1962) basal medium supplemented with different growth reg...

Nine F1 hybrids of chickpea and their parents were evaluated in randomized complete block design to estimate heterosis and heritability of grain yield and yield components. Significant differences amo...

Mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) is an important short duration kharif pulse crop in Pakistan. To enhance genetic variability for large seed size, hybridization between exotic and indigenous germ...

The most significant achievements in rice breeding at Nuclear Institute of Agriculture (NIA), Tando Jam, Pakistan through mutagenesis are the evolution of four high yielding and better quality varieti...

A high yielding rice mutant variety Mehak has been developed from a fine aromatic variety Basmati-370, through gamma rays (150 Gy). The mutant variety Mehak was found significantly better than its mot...

An experiment was conducted to optimize growth medium and growth conditions for In vitro propagation of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni through nodular stem sections. Varying concentrations of different gro...

An Australian canola genotype ‘Dunkeld’ and a local rapeseed mutant variety ‘Abasin-95’ were hybridized at Nuclear Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Peshawar during Rabi...

Preliminary studies on 34 rice accessions (aromatic and non-aromatic) originated from South and Southeast Asian countries were analyzed for genetic diversity applying random amplified polymorphic DNA ...

Salt tolerance studies were conducted in mutants of locally grown variety of Brassica juncea (cv. S-9). The studies were conducted in gravel culture exposed to two salinity levels (i.e. Control (1.5 d...

Twenty-four wheat genotypes were screened for salt tolerance at an early seedling growth stages at 0...

The high nutrients and organic matter contents of sewage sludge make it an excellent fertilizer to enhance soil fertility and crop production. However, presence of metals is a major problem for such a...

Parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus L) an alien invasive weed species, is spreading throughout Pakistan. Worldwide, it has been designated as one of the most troublesome weed species. The advers...

A water culture experiment was conducted to study the physiological responses of salt tolerant and salt sensitive inbred lines of rice. Different growth and physiological attributes including ion upta...

Salinity and waterlogging are the widespread problems of many areas of Pakistan. Wheat varieties were tested at salinity, waterlogging and saline-waterlogging treatments for their performance to Na+, ...

Pakistan has lush and diverse flora. A comprehensive literature search was conducted to determine the medicinal flowering plants found in Pakistan and they are used as remedies for various disorders o...

Genetic variation for salt tolerance was assessed in maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids using solution-culture technique. The study was conducted in gravel culture exposed to three salinity levels (0, 50 and...

Effect of NaCl salinity on growth, ion partitioning, K/Ca and K/Na ratios of four provenances of Eucalyptus camaldulensis was studied under 5 salinity levels i.e. 0, 0.5...

Twelve wheat genotypes/lines were tested for different levels, 0.00 (control), -0.5 and -0.75 MPa of osmotic stresses (PEG-6000) for 20 days in a growth cabinet under a 10 h photoperiod (41.69 mmol m-...

Preliminary studies on the germination of teek seeds (Tectona grandis L.) were carried out at the institute of Plant Sciences, University of Sindh by subjecting the seeds with some physical and chemic...

A field study was conducted at Malakandher Research Farm, NWFP Agricultural University, Peshawar during Rabi 2003-4 to quantify the competition between wheat and wild oats. The experiment was laid out...

A field experiment on a saline-sodic soil with pH 8.21-8.42, ECe 6.40-7.90 dSm-1 and SAR 17.79-23.46mmol-1was carried out using five soil reclaiming treatments viz., leaching (Control), Farm yard manu...

The majority of ground water pumped through tube-well is brackish and unfit for irrigation. But this water can be utilized on problem soils if amendments are added. A field experiment was carried out ...

Achyranthes aspera L., and Xanthium strumarium L. are two troublesome weeds that generally grow on wastelands. A mealy bug species was found to be a biological control agent severely damaging these tw...

Parthenium hysterophorus L., an annual herb native to the subtropics of North and South America, has achieved major weed status in Pakistan during the last 15-20 years. This weed is rapidly spreading ...

Effect of aqueous leaf extracts of 8 allelopathic tree species viz., Accacia nilotica (L.) Willd ex Del., Alstonia scholaris (L.) R. Br., Azadirachta indica (L.) A. Juss., Eucalyptus citriodora Hook, ...

Keratinolytic mycoflora from sludge were studied by Hair Bait Technique in Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan. Fifteen species of fungi viz., Aspergillus niger, A.fumigatus, A. flavus, A.candidus, A. wentii, A...

The present list of Basidiomycetes: orders: Tremellales, Dacrymycetales and Aphyllophorales (toad stools) of Kaghan valley includes 110 species belonging to 57 genera. Taxonomically they were treated ...

Surveys of different areas of Punjab conducted during 2003-2005, revealed that shisham (Dalbergia sissoo Roxb.) plants are severely suffering from wilt and dieback diseases. Maximum mortality of up to...

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) belongs to the family Asteraceae. Helianthus. annuus ssp. lenticularis (wild), H. annuus ssp annuus (weed) and H. annuus ssp macrocarpus cultivated. H. annuus ssp macr...

During the period from June 2004 to May 2005, a survey of the soil mycoflora was carried out at 3 sites (Right bank, Center and Left bank) from the bed of river Indus at Kotri. A total of 24 soil samp...

Study was conducted In vivo to evaluate the antagonistic effects of two microorganisms against collar rot disease of chickpea caused by the fungus Sclerotium rolfsii. The effect of microbial amendment...

Effect of some indigenous plants such as Prosopis, Azadirachta, Sphaeranthus and Cassia species, was studied on urea nitrogen transformations, especially nitrification. Soils selected from two differe...

Two different varieties of sorghum viz., white turio and red janpuri (having red and white color of grains) were tested for better and early spawn growth of oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq....

The oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq. ex. Fr.) Kummer was cultivated on wheat straw in polythene bags (containing 500 g wheat straw on dry weight basis per bag) using sorghum grain spawn at ...

Under the guidance of National IPM project FFS activities were carried out in Sakrand Sindh during 2003. This programme made a visible impact on farmers understanding of IPM. Farmer Field School (FFS)...

Development of resistance to insecticides now possess the greatest challenge to agriculture, especially to Cotton which heavily relies on chemical control. In Pakistan currently a high level resistanc...

The study deals with the effect of volume of culture medium on the enhanced production of alkaline protease by an EMS-mutant culture of Bacillus subtilis in a lab scale bioreactor and shake flasks. Th...

The present investigation describes the production of acid proteases by Penicillium griseoroseum IH-02 using solid-state fermentation technique. The enzyme biosynthesis was maximum (8.2 U/ml) when fer...

Six bread wheat genotypes (Sarsabz, Marvi-2000, Bhittai, Khirman, SD-66 and ESW-9522) were evaluated along with drought tolerant variety Barani-86 for low water requirement. The experimental material ...

Different solvent extracts such as ethanol, methanol, ethylacetate, chloroform and aqueous extracts were obtained from leaves and shoot of a medicinal plant Cassia obvata Collad for screening the anti...

In order to investigate the genetic diversity present in the pea germplasm provided by IBGRI, NARC, Islamabad...

Survey of tomato fields of Hyderabad district was conducted to estimate the incidence of damping-off disease. Maximum disease incidence was recorded at Village Darya Khan Nahiyoun (65.0%) followed by ...