Proteins are the building blocks of cells of living creatures of all kingdoms. Due to pivotal role of protein structures in understanding evolutionary relationships and inferring their functions, the ... Read More

TA29 is an anther specific gene in tobacco which has been widely used for engineering male sterility in tobacco. A homologue of TA29 gene was isolated from tomato by PCR using tomato genomic DNA as te ... Read More

Fourteen wheat cultivars were screened against various salinity levels on the basis of their seedling growth performance up to 17 days. Twenty seedlings of each cultivar were transplanted on nylon mes ... Read More

Dicoma capensis is widely used as traditional medicine in southern Africa. The potential of D. capensis as herbal medicine, its botany, phytochemistry and biological activities are reviewed. The liter ... Read More

This study attempts to evaluate the adequacy of educational facilities and assess its relevance to the needs and requirements of rural people with special reference to Tehsil Ferozewala, District Shei ... Read More

Bridelia cathartica is an important medicinal plant throughout its distributional range in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the botany, ethnomedicinal uses, chemical an ... Read More

Search for cheap, easily acessable, safe and alternative treatment options is one of the evolving fields in oral health care at present. Acacia nilotica is a plant species that is almost ubiquitously ... Read More

The investigations were carried out to study the effect of kiillium, peatmoss and organic matter on aggregation and hydraulic conductivity (IfC) of Qulbal, a structureless Soil. Kiillium, copolymer wa ... Read More

All scientific studies of reading habits show that a reader, no matter how fast or slow he reads, or how much or little he gets from his reading, can improve both his rate and his comprehension. The s ... Read More

Antimicrobial resistance is a very serious threat to human health; hence the search for novel antimicrobials is urgently needed. Cyclotides are unique disulfide rich mini-proteins of plant family havi ... Read More

The Nomad refers to the one belonging to wandering pastoral community. Nomadism involves repeated shifting of the habitat of the people in search of subsistence and the mobility is focused around temp ... Read More

Agricultural land conversion (ALC) is a trend of converting arable land into non-arable uses worldwide particularly in housing colonies, industries, road network and others. The main objectives of the ... Read More

Whitefly-transmissible begomoviruses (Family-Geminiviridae) are the major pathogens of economically important crops and weeds. In 2004-05, during field surveys in Faisalabad, Pakistan, symptoms of lea ... Read More

Globally, water stress is the major abiotic stress, which contributes huge in yield losses of major crops including maize. To breed for drought tolerance, the first and foremost step is to search resi ... Read More

The census of population of the wild boar, Sus scrofa L. was conducted by visual observations in strips and blocks. A total of 57 strips were observed along canal side. The number of animals observed ... Read More

Zinc (Zn) is needed for plants growth and human’s balanced diet. The non-availability or less mobilization of Zn affects crop yield and nutritional quality and when such produce is consumed, it causes ... Read More

The study determined value preferences of consumers for fresh tomatoes in Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad – the three major cities of Pakistan. The purpose of the study was to identify tomato quality a ... Read More

The research was conducted to assess the genetic variability, pattern of grouping, and to search out the diverse genotypes for improvement of wheat germplasm for yield. The germplasm was collected fro ... Read More

During in vitro evaluation of nine systemic fungicides Ascoehyta rabiei mycelium was the most sensitive to Tilt, TBZ, Thiophanate methyl and least sensitive, in decending order to Sicarol, Bayleton, S ... Read More