BAHARUDDIN, NINIE NOOR DIANA ENCHE; AZIZ, NURUL SHUHADA; SOHIF, HAJAR NAEMAH; KARIM, WAN AZLINA ABDUL; AL-OBAIDI, JAMEEL R.; BASIRAN, MOHD NAZIR(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2016-05-22)
Marine microalgae have been commercially used as live feed for aquaculture and nutritional supplements. However, harvesting of marine microalgae is a major obstacle for industrial scale and one of the promising harvesting ...
This paper carries information for diagnosis lichenobiota in the agricultural landscape of Poland NE. The research led to a better understanding of the problem of occurrence of lichens in the agricultural landscape. The ...
This is the first comprehensive study on the distribution and abundance of diatom species from the coastal and nearshore waters of Karachi, Pakistan, bordering northern Arabian Sea. A total of 20 genera are recorded in ...
The distribution of fine roots in the soil profile has important implications related to water and nutrient uptake. The objective of this study was to compare the effects of different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on ...
Para grass is a salt tolerant plant, grown on salt affected soils of Punjab, Pakistan. The aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of culturable and non-culturable bacteria in the rhizosphere, rhizoplane and ...
Four lines and six testers were crossed to produce 24 F1 hybrids following Line x Tester technique to screen the material tolerant to blight and cucumber mosaic virus using integrated protocols of whole plant assay, ...
The study was to investigate the effects of combined inoculation of Glomus mosseae (arbusculr mycorrhizae fungi, AMF) and Sinorhizobium meliloti (nitrogen-fixing bacteria, i.e., an Rhizobium meliloti, RM) on yield, nutrient ...
The effects of soil microbes collected from the two invasive species Eupatorium adenophorum and E. odoratum and the two native species E. japonicum and E. chinense on the growth and biomass of E. adenophorum was examined ...
Present study was conducted to evaluate the fungicidal property of methanolic extracts of some
indigenous plants of Karachi such as Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (leaves), Thespesia populnea (leaves, stem and
fruit), Withania ...
WAHID, FAZLI; SHARIF, MUHAMMAD; STEINKELLNER, SIEGRID; KHAN, M. AZIM; MARWAT, K.B; KHAN, S.A(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2016-05-13)
The beneficial microbes like arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) are known to play an important role in phosphorous (P) supply to plants in a sustainable manner in P deficient soils. ...
A 4-year plot experiment was conducted to determine the dynamics of changes in the spore density of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and of the degree of endomycorrhizal colonisation of roots of clovers and meadow grasses ...
MANSURI, SHAZIA; PERVEEN, ANJUM; KHAN, SAIFULLAH(Karachi: Pakistan Botanical Society, 2016-05-11)
Plant-derivative secondary metabolites have defensive properties against infecting agents that causes sickness. Moreover, they are helpful in impeding several noninfectious diseases. This investigation includes the preliminary ...
ALBOKARI, MAJED M.A.; KHASHOGG, ABDULMAJEED J.; ALMUWALID, MOHAMMED A.(Karachi: Pakistan Journal of Botany , Botanical garden , University of Karachi, 2016-04-13)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia being one of the driest countries globally needs drought tolerant wheat varieties. Breeding studies were conducted to determine the effects of different irrigation levels on some morphological ...
AKRAM, MUHAMMAD; AFTAB, FAHEEM(Karachi: Pakistan Journal of Botany , Botanical garden , University of Karachi, 2016-04-12)
In the present study, fruits (drupes) were collected from Changa Manga Forest Plus Trees (CMF-PT), Changa Manga Forest Teak Stand (CMF-TS) and Punjab University Botanical Gardens (PUBG) and categorized into very large (≥ ...
ARJUMEND, TUBA; ABBASI, M. KALEEM(Karachi: Pakistan Journal of Botany , Botanical garden , University of Karachi, 2016-04-11)
Scientific information on the spatial variability in soil properties and nutrient status is important for understandingecosystem processes and evaluating agricultural land management practices. This study aims to characterize ...
SAEED, RAFAT; SHAH, PARAS; MIRBAHAR, AMEER AHMED; JAHAN, BUSHREEN; AHMED, NAEEM; AZEEM, MOHAMMAD; AHMAD, RAFIQ(Karachi: Pakistan Journal of Botany , Botanical garden , University of Karachi, 2016-04-10)
The pot experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of tea compost on plant growth under salinity. Plants were grown in clay pots filled with sandy loam soil and irrigated by saline water (0, 50 and 100mM NaCl) with ...
-ZHONG, SUN LI; TONG, LIU(Karachi: Pakistan Journal of Botany , Botanical garden , University of Karachi, 2016-04-09)
Haloxylon ammodendron degradation in arid regions of China has become a serious and widespread ecological issue. This study attempts to provide theoretical support for achieving the goal of ecological protection and ...
SAJID, MUHAMMAD; AMIN, NOORUL; AHMAD, HABIB; KHAN, KHALID(Karachi: Pakistan Journal of Botany , Botanical garden , University of Karachi, 2016-04-08)
The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of various concentrations of GA3 on plant height, number of branches, leaves, flowers plant-1, leaf area, days to flowering, blooming period, flower size and flower fresh ...
KASHMIR, SHAHEEN; KHAN, MUHAMMAD AZIM; SHAD, ANWAR ALI; MARWA, K.B.; KHAN, HAROON(Karachi: Pakistan Journal of Botany , Botanical garden , University of Karachi, 2016-04-07)
Two troublesome weeds like Silybum marianum and Avena fatua were exposed to different levels of temperature and salinity. Laboratory based experimented were conducted in the Department of Weed Science, The University of ...
GAO, QINGHAI; WU, YAN; JIA, SHUANGSHUANG; HUANG, SHOUCHENG; LU, XIAOMIN(Karachi: Pakistan Journal of Botany , Botanical garden , University of Karachi, 2016-04-06)
Increasing evidences have shown that grafting can confer enhanced the resistance of many plant species to various biotic and abiotic stresses, but there is little information about the effects of grafting on the growth of ...