• EFFECT OF NITROGEN ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF SUNFLOWER UNDER SEMI-ARID CONDITIONS OF PAKISTAN 

  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 EFFECTS OF CELLULASE ON CAPSAICIN PRODUCTION IN FREELY SUSPENDED CELLS AND IMMOBILIZED CELL CULTURES OF CAPSICUM ANNUUM L. 

  ISLEK, CEMIL; USTUN, A.S.; KOC, E. (Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2014-11-14)

  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 ...
• IN VITRO FLOWERING AND FRUITING IN CULTURE OF DENDROBIUM OFFICINATE KIMURA ET MIGO. (ORCHIDACEAE) 

  QIAN, XIN; WANG, CAIXIA; OUYANG, TONG; TIAN, MIN (Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2014-11-13)

  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 ...
• COMBINING ABILITY FOR MATURITY AND PLANT HEIGHT IN BRASSICA RAPA (L.) SSP. DICHOTOMA (ROXB.) HANELT 

  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 ...
• EVALUATION OF POLLEN VIABILITY IN DATE PALM CULTIVARS UNDER DIFFERENT STORAGE TEMPERATURES 

  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 ...
• CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF LEAVES OF ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA L. NATIVE TO PAKISTAN 

  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, ...
• COMMUNITY STRUCTURE CHARACTERISTICS OF PHYTOPLANKTON IN ZHALONG WETLAND, CHINA 

  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, ...
• PRELIMINARY SCREENING OF METHANOLIC PLANT EXTRACTS AGAINST HUMAN RHABDOMYOSARCOMA CELL LINE FROM SALT RANGE, PAKISTAN 

  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 ...
• MANGROVE FORMULATIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF MELOIDOGYNE JAVANICA (TREUB) CHITWOOD UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS 

  MARIUM TARIQ; SHAHNAZ DAWAR (Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2015-03-20)

  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 ...
• AGRO-MORPHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF SOME EXOTIC COMMON BEAN (PHASEOLUS VULGARIS L.) GENOTYPES UNDER RAINFED CONDITIONS OF ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN 

  AWAN, FAHAD KARIM; MUHAMMAD YASIR KHURSHID; OBAID AFZAL; MUKHTAR AHMED; CHAUDHRY, ARSHAD NAWAZ (Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2014-03-12)

  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. ...
• GENETIC VARIABILITY STUDIES IN BRASSICA F2 POPULATIONS DEVELOPED THROUGH INTER AND INTRA-SPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION 

  LAILA FAYYAZ; FARHATULLAH; SIKANDAR SHAH; IDRA IQBAL; MEHWISH KANWAL; SAJID ALI (Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2014-03-13)

  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 ...
• HABITAT INFLUENCES COMPOSITION OF VOLATILE CONSTITUENTS IN ALLIUM VICTORIALIS VAR. PLATYPHYLLUM 

  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 ...
• EFFECT OF SUCROSE, BENZYLAMINOPURINE AND CULTURE CONDITION ON IN VITRO PROPAGATION OF CURCUMA XANTHORRHIZA ROXB. AND ZINGIBER AROMATICUM VAL. 

  KUSUMASTUTI, MELATI YULIA; BHATT, ARVIND; INDRAYANTO, GUNAWAN; KENG, CHAN LAI (Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2014-03-15)

  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 ...
• WEED CONTROL IN TOMATO (LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM Mill.) THROUGH MULCHING AND HERBICIDES 

  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 ...
• RICE HUSK AS DYES REMOVAL FROM IMPREGNATED COTTON WASTES GENERATED IN SPORTS INDUSTRIES OF SIALKOT, PAKISTAN 

  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 ...
• THE SEED ATLAS OF PAKISTAN-VII. GERANIACEAE 

  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 ...
• WHEAT-WILD OATS INTERACTIONS AT VARYING DENSITIES AND PROPORTIONS 

  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 ...
• RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GEOGRAPHIC PROXIMITY AND GENETIC SIMILARITY AMONG THE NATURAL POPULATIONS OF PINUS BRUTIA TEN.: ITS IMPLICATION ON GENETIC CONSERVATION 

  KAYA, NURAY; BİLGEN, BEHİYE BANU (Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2012-06-30)

  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 ...
• NEMATICIDAL POTENTIAL OF CULTURE FILTRATES OF SOIL FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH RHIZOSPHERE AND RHIZOPLANE OF CULTIVATED AND WILD PLANTS 

  SHAMIM A. QURESHI; RUQQIA; VIQAR SULTANA; JEHAN ARA; SYED EHTESHAMUL-HAQUE (Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2012-06-29)

  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, ...
• EFFECT OF SOME CHEMICAL TREATMENTS ON SEED GERMINATION AND DORMANCY BREAKING IN AN IMPORTANT MEDICINAL PLANT OCHRADENUS ARABICUS CHAUDHARY, HILL C. & A.G. MILL. 

  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 ...

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