NASIM, WAJID; AHMAD, ASHFAQ; MOHKUM HAMMAD, HAFIZ; JAVED CHAUDHARY, HASSAN; FAROOQ HUSSAIN MUNIS, MUHAMMAD(Karachi: Pakistan Journal of Botany, Botanical Garden, University of Karachi, 2012-04-24)
Two years field study was carried out with the objective to determine the effect of different levels of nitrogen (N) on growth, development, yield and yield components of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) hybrids under ...
The effect of different concentrations of cellulase on the production of capsaicin in freely suspended cell and
immobilized cell cultures of Kahramanmaraş pepper seeds (Capsicum annuum L.) were studied. Calluses were ...
Dendrobium officinate Kimura et Migo. is a rare and endangered perennial orchid, which is valued for its attractive flowers and medicinal uses. Its three-to-five-year breeding cycle makes propagation difficult, so we ...
ADNAN NASIM; FARHATULLAH; NAQIB ULLAH KHAN; SYED MUHAMMAD AZAM; ZEESHAN NASIM; M. AFZAL(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2014-11-12)
A 5 × 5 F1 diallel cross hybrids of Brassica rapa (L.) ssp. dichotoma (Roxb.) Hanelt along with parents were evaluated through combining ability for days to flowering (initiation and completion), days to maturity and plant ...
MARYAM; M. JAFAR JASKANI; BILQUES FATIMA; M. SALMAN HAIDER; SUMMAR ABBAS NAQVI; M. NAFEES; RASHID AHMAD; KHAN, IQRAR AHMAD(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2015-03-24)
Date palm is a dioecious monocotyledonous plant which belongs to Arecaceae family. Date palm pollen retains viability for a single growing season. Air dried pollen was enclosed in sealed capsules and stored at 4°C, -20°C ...
AISHA ASHRAF; RAJA ADIL SARFRAZ; FAROOQ ANWAR; SHAUKAT ALI SHAHID; KHALID M. ALKHARFY(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2015-03-23)
Ziziphus mauritiana L., is a fruit tree well known for its nutritional and medicinal benefits. The aim of the current study was to investigate the chemical composition as well as biological (antioxidant, antimicrobial, ...
ZHANG, NANNAN; ZANG, S. SHUYING(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2015-03-22)
In autumn 2010, the phytoplankton samples were collected in Zhalong Wetland. A total of 347 species belonging to 78 genera 6 phyla were identified, Chlorophyta and Bacillariophyta were dominated phytoplankton communities, ...
MUHAMMAD MAQSOOD; RAHMATULLAH QURESHI; MASROOR IKRAM; SAFDAR ALI; MUHAMMAD RAFI; KHAN, JUNAID AHMED; MUHAMMAD SHEERAZ AHMED(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2015-03-21)
The aim of this study was to investigate the mechanism of cell death by plant extract in the Rhabdomyosarcoma (RD) cell line by using human muscle cancer cells as an experimental model. The optimal uptake of plant extracts ...
Six months field experiment were set up from June to November in Department of Botany, University of Karachi to investigate the influence of mangroves (Avicennia marina, Rhizophora mucronata) parts separately or combined ...
Thirteen exotic and local genotypes of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) were evaluated for various agronomic and morphological characters under rainfed conditions of Islamabad, Pakistan during February-May, 2010. ...
Assessment of variability and the heritable proportion of this variability are crucial to estimate the genetic advance in oilseed Brassica improvement, as in all crops. These may be variable in different segregating ...
YANG, JAE KYUNG; KIM, JI SU; JUNG, JI YOUNG; JEONG, MI JIN; SONG, HYUN JIN; YUN, CHUNG WEON; KIM, HYONG HO; DO, EUN SU; KARIGAR, S. CHANDRAKANT; CHOI, MYUNG SUK; MOON, HYUN SHIK(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2014-03-14)
The composition of volatile constituents from tissues of Korean wild garlic, Allium victorialis var. platyphyllum
collected from different habitats of Ulleung Island, Korea, was determined. The concentrations of total ...
Curcuma xanthorrhiza and Zingiber aromaticum, are important medicinal species of the Zingiberaceae family. They are used in traditional medicine known as Jamu. This study reports on the presence of sucrose and BA ...
TAMANA BAKHT; KHAN, IJAZ AHMAD(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2014-03-16)
Experiments were conducted at the Agricultural Research Farm of the University of Agriculture, Peshawar during 2012 and 2013 to determine the impact of row spacing and weed management strategies on tomato (Lycopersicon ...
MUHAMMAD JUNAID; KHAN, MUHAMMAD USMAN; FAROOQ AHMAD; MALIK, RIFFAT NASEEM; SHINWARI, ZABTA KHAN(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2014-03-17)
The current study was designed to the potential dyes removal present in solid wastes of cotton (Generated from sports industries). Sport products were colored with different shaded dyes with the help of cotton that are ...
AFSHEEN ATHER; RUBINA ABID; M. QAISER(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2012-07-01)
Seed morphology of 19 taxa belonging to the family Geraniaceae, was examined using light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Seed macro and micro morphological characters were found useful for the taxonomic delimitation ...
KHAN, IJAZ AHMED; GUL HASSAN; KHAN, SHERAZ AHMED; S.M.A. SHAH(Hassan, I. A. K., Khan, S. A., & Shah, S. M. A. (2012). Wheat-wild oats interactions at varying densities and proportions. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 44(3), 1053-1057., 2012-07-01)
Wild oats is a worst weed infesting winter cereals throughout the world. Pot experiment was conducted in the Weed Research Laboratory, Department of Weed Science, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University Peshawar, Pakistan ...
Genetic variation in five natural populations of Pinus brutia Ten., was determined with isoenzyme analyses. Isozymes from nine enzyme systems extracted from haploid female gametophytes of the seeds were separated by ...
Several fungi are known to regulate the nematode densities in soil by exhibiting a range of antagonistic activity including production of nematoxic compounds. Since fungi and nematodes occur together in the rhizosphere, ...
MOHAMMAD NADEEM; FAHAD AL-QURAINY; KHAN, SALIM; MOHAMAD TARROUM; M. ASHRAF(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2012-06-28)
The seeds of Ochradenus arabicus, a medicinally important plant endemic to Saudi Arabia, become dormant and thus do not germinate easily. An attempt was made to improve seed germination and break the dormancy. The seeds ...