Drought is a serious constraint for rice growth, affecting about 50% of world rice productivity. The yield losses are more severe when drought strikes at flowering sta...

Drought is one of the most detrimental stresses which limit seed germination, plant growth, development and crop yield. The influence of corn cobbiochar producedat 450oC by slow pyrol...

Codon usage bias (CUB) directly affects the expression level of protein. The protein expression also affects by abiotic stresses such as cold, drought, heat, salt, deh...

It is well known that salinity badly effect plant growth all over the world and greatly reduces crop production in the affected regions. Selenium functions as antioxid...

Six (6) species of three tribes Arundineae (Arundo donax L. & Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud.), Aristideae (Aristida adscensionis ...

Seed macro and micro morphological characters of 68 taxa within to the family Amaranthaceae were examined by using light and scanning electron microscopy. Generic and keys for species along with...

Dendrochronological studies were conducted in 40 different sites in conifer dominated forests from Shangla District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Wood sample...

The monophyletic tribe Andropogoneae (Poaceae) is a diverse group, which comprises economically important and environmentally essential clade of C4 grasses....

Current investigation aims to analyze diversity and nature of distribution of the pteridophyte taxa of Pakistan based on published literature and current field studies...

Analyzing species diversity and understanding phyto-climatic gradient is crucial for proper management of montane ecosystem. The study site is located in the Karakoram Mountains, Baltistan (Nort...

Eco-taxonomic and ethnobotanical studies were conducted in a Chagharzai valley of District Buner (KPK) Pakistan in four consecutive years 2011-2014. During this study a total of 127 species belo...

Canola (Brassica napus) is an important quality edible oil crop. An increase in the production of canola can significantly reduce the import of edible oil. Wi...

Plants represent an illimitable bank of molecules for new drug discovery and development. The current study was aimed to scientifically validate and test the tradition...

Modern medicine starts the study of human body from the level of cell and tissues while Unani Medicine starts its study from the very lowest level of organization and ...

Climate change impact is ready to interfere in agro-ecosystems. Improvement of adaptations of crops to forthcoming climatic changes must be focused in research. In the present study, leaf liter ...

Pakistan is blessed with high quality rice having supreme attributes of physicochemical, cooking and eating properties and characteristic popcorn like aroma. Among all...

Indigenous rice germplasm was evaluated for total seed storage proteins diversity using 116 accessions. We obtained 18 visible polypeptide bands out of which eight wer...

Genetic analysis of some yield contributing traits of four F2 segregating populations (NIA-Amber x Marvi-2000, TD-1 x Khirman, NIA-10/8 x NIA-Amber and Marv...

Oxidative species are regularly formed in the physiological system as a result of a number of normal metabolic activities especially the energy related processes. Although there is an innate mec...

Pakistan has been endowed with marvelous diversity of potentially therapeutic plants. Makran region is largely comprised of hills along with barren land. Unequivocally...

To obtain insights into the mechanism of Verticillium wilt, we elucidated the effects of Verticillium dahliae toxin (Vd toxin) on physiological and b...

In this study, Thorn Apple (Solanum incanum L.) plants collected during different seasons from various sites (Khabeki, Khoora, Dape Sharif, Anga, Jallar) in S...

Ficus genus has medicinally important plant and being used by indigenous communities of Azad Kashmir. In this research, some taxa of Ficus (F. bengalensis, F. carica, ...

Genetic diversity was studied among 102 wheat genotypes using 19 agro-morphological characters. Multivariate analysis including cluster number and principal component ...

Hyperthermia adversely affects cell structure and function, leading to necrosis and death of the plant that ultimately result in yield loss. Induced expression of the ...

The present investigation describes the production potential of a morphologically identified isolate of an ascomycetous fungus i.e., Aspergillus sp. (MBL-1612) that was verified by DNA ...

Abiotic stresses are common limitations to rice productivity worldwide. Sodium and iron toxicities affect the rice crop yield adversely. The aim of this study was to c...

The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between forest vegetation and environmental gradients from some forested area of Himalayan, Hindu Kush ...

High quality DNA is essential in various techniques of molecular systematic. Herbarium specimens are the valuable source of genetic information in this respect especially for those taxa which gr...

Mushrooms are very sensitive to environmental pollution but no scientific study has been conducted so far to evaluate the effect of air pollution on their growth. The ...

Nanotechnology involving nanoparticles is a remarkably important field of present time having various industrial and medicinal uses. Biological production of nanoparti...

Bacillus species are well known rhizobacteria for their potential to improve plant growth and control of plant pathogens. Bacillus species were isolated from rhizosphere of dif...

Pakistan is very fertile for wheat production but there are problems of yield loss, low grain quality and substandard fodder. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is invaded by several fungal p...

      Samples of Basidiomycetous fungi were collected from different parts of Gilgit, Pakistan. Spore prints were prepared by removing the stalk and placing the cap overnight on ...

All the conditions that affect the ecological survival of pathogens are essential for formulating pathogen management strategies and for multiplication to meet the req...

Phytophthora sojae, is a pathogen of soybean that deliver an extensive number of effector proteins into plant cells. The Crinkling and Necrosis (CRN) cytoplas...

A serious threat to the mango industry is postharvest decay. Postharvest losses of fresh mango fruits are reported to be more than half of its production in some of th...

Phosphorous solubilizing bacteria (PSB) are known as beneficial bacteria that enhance the growth of the plants, when applied to the crops. An experiment was conducted ...

Sandspit coastal area is located between Hawksbay and Manora channel, south of Karachi. The area opposite to sandy coast is covered by mangrove forest at Sandspit back...

The thalli of brown  alga Sargassum tenerrimum J. Agardh  collected from upper and lower littoral deep rocky  pools at  Buleji, Manora and...

Synergetic effects of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Sargassum ilicifolium was evaluated in inducing  resistance in cotton against charcoal rot dise...

Seed treatment with homeopathic drugs considered as an environment-friendly and has positive impacts on plant growth and inhibition of pathogenic fungi (Fusarium...

In the present study, production of lincomycin by Streptomyces lincolnensis through submerged fermentation has been reported. Culture medium M6 consisting of glucose (15 g/L), starch (4...

A petrified fossil wood collected from Manchar Formation of Miocene age exposed in Thanobola Khan Sindh Pakistan is described as a new fossil wood species belonging to...

Some aquatic plants have the ability to treat the water there by improving its quality. The main objectives of the study were to introduce the greywater treatment using local plants and secondly to as...

Each flour mill produces number of break and reduction streams with distinct differences in physicochemical characteristics of flours which at the end of processing are blended to produce &ldquo...