The present qualitative study is based on 50 participants responsible of household food shopping. Their in-depth interviews were conducted with the consumers from the four superstores located in Faisalabad to explore ...

In this study briquettes prepared from four types of abundantly available crop residue (i.e., wheat straw, rice straw, maize straw and cotton sticks). These were optimized and tested to evaluate the enhancement in their ...

Cereal crops are a major part of our daily dietary intake. However, they are reported to have poor zinc (Zn) content. Bio-activation of zinc oxide with zinc solubilizing bacteria (ZSB) is considered a ...

Okra leaf cotton has great potential to confer resistance to insect pests; however, very few okra leaf cotton cultivars have been developed in the world. Generally, cotton breeders have perception that okra leaf ...

The research trial was conducted in wirehouse of Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture,Faisalabad during spring season, to assess the influence of lead toxicity on ...

The herein reported studies were conducted to investigate the ovicidal effect of different insect growth regulators (IGRs), viz., lufenuron 50EC, flufenoxuron 10DC, pyriproxyfen 10.8EC, tebufenozide 20SC, methoxyfenozide ...

The fruits of Indian jujube (Zizyphus mauritianaLamk.) are commonly used as fresh. However, fresh fruits are vulnerable to decay after few days of picking due to high moisture content and thus need to be preserved ...

Selenium (Se) is a naturally occurring substance that is toxic at high concentration for all life forms. It enters intoenvironment through natural and anthropogenic sources. Therefore, this ...

Early blight disease caused by Alternaria solaniis the most damaging disease of tomato. This disease causes severe yield losses in tomato. This study was planned to find out the efficacy of Bion and salicylic ...

This review describes the regeneration and genetic transformation strategies for the main fruit trees aimed to produce cis-or trans-genic editing tools; the risks and benefits derived from the proper use of these technologies ...