Release of inorganic P was studied as a result of degradation of phytates during legume green manuring in soil. Aspergillus niger strain 419 was also inoculated for the production of phytase. Four sets of experiments were ...

Post-genomics need tools to analyze genomic data for its functional characterization within short time. Agrobacterium mediated transient gene expression assays are popular choice to analyze the function of a gene within a ...

Brassica juncea is one of the most important oilseed crop. An efficient and reproducible protocol was developed for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Brassica juncea variety NIFA RAYA with Wasabi defensin gene to ...

Studies different herbicides and plant extracts for controlling weeds in wheat crop were conducted at Malakander Research Farm, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Agricultural University Peshawar, during Rabi season 2008. The experiment ...

Nitrogen plays an important role in the production and quality of crop through enhancing vegetative growth. In spite of this fact, if it is applied in excess of the requirement of the crop then it pollutes both ground water ...

Growth attributes from sowing to physiological maturity and seed developmental changes from anthesis to physiological maturity were monitored in two varieties of wheat (Pirsabaq-2005 and Khyber-87) under the influence of ...

Water stress is a serious threat to the agricultural production. Therefore, the present experiment was aimed to study the effect of abscisic acid (ABA) and/or proline (Pro) on the performance of faba bean under water stress ...

A new wide leaf rice mutant with high yield in the field was identified which has the leaf width about 1.5-2 folds more than that of wild-type. It possesses fewer, larger, upright leaves per plant. The chlorophyll contents ...

In this study, the proximate composition, antioxidant activity as well as the phenolics profile of cherry fruit at three maturity stages were investigated. The moisture, protein, total sugars and total organic acids contents ...

Iron deficiency is one of the major yield limiting factors in groundnut. The soils of Pothwar (90% of groundnut production area in Pakistan) are calcareous in nature, thus groundnut is exposed to Fe deficiency. Seeds of ...