The aim of this paper is to study the biased estimators in forecasting the agriculture production. The main idea relies on using the ridge regression estimators to forecast the groundnut production. T ... Read More
The data on medicinal plants in the vegetation of district Mirpurkhas, Sindh was recorded during the month of June 2012. Thirty four families, 51 genera and 53 species were recorded which are used by ... Read More
Ethnobotanically important plants are used for various resolves in daily life including medicines, food, fodder, vegetables, etc. Medicinal plants are necessary for treatment of various diseases and p ... Read More
Using serial dilution and direct plate methods for the detection of rhizosphere mycoflora of 22 soil samples of 3 different leguminous trees (Prosopis juliflora, Leucaena leucocephala and Adenanthera ... Read More
Seed treatment with seed powder of Nigella sativa and Ferula assafoetida showed antifungal activities and reduced the seed borne fungi on maize. Maize seeds at 8 and 16% moisture when treated with see ... Read More
In the present investigation three Bacillus secies viz. Bacillus coagulans (BA), Bacillus licheniformis (BLB2) and Bacillus cereus group isolate (BS) alone and in combination with three different fert ... Read More
Biodiversity and biosystematics of free-living marine nematodes were investigated in water and sediment samples collected from five stations at Chinna Creek. Chinna Creek which is also known as Easter ... Read More
Gout is not the only complication resulting from hyperuricemia (HU). There are a variety of other pathological conditions where HU plays a role. The HU may occur in gastric cancer, ischemic colitis (I ... Read More
Litter production was studied in mangroves of North-western part of Indus Delta. Litter fall in grey mangrove forests (Avicennia marina) was studied at two sites, Sandspit and Rehdri Goth. In the stud ... Read More
The objectives of this research were:1) to produce milk co-fermented with 80:20 (treatment A), 70:30 (treatment B) and 60:40 (treatment C) ratios of the mesophilic and thermophilic starter cultures: m ... Read More
Potato virus caused 83% yield losses in potato crops of Pakistan. Potato virus X (PVX) is in the list of the top ten damaging plant viruses in the world. Thirty yhree varieties/advanced lines of potat ... Read More
Different tomato cultivars were explored for direct and indirect regeneration response in vitro. Combined effect of NAA and BAP was found better for shoot induction (73%) in cv. Nagina compared with K ... Read More
Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik) is ranked as sixth important pulse crop of the world. Conventional breeding in lentil is hampered due to inadequate genetic variability, high degree of self pollination a ... Read More
A Lysimeter scale experiment was conducted to determine the effect of elevated salinity on growth parameters and changes in biochemical attributes in 15 days old barley lines PK-30108 and Haider-93 in ... Read More
Consuming synbiotic products (simultaneous presence of probiotics and prebiotics) has beneficial effects on health of consumers. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of inulin concentrati ... Read More
Febuxostat is a selective, novel, non-purine analog xanthine oxidase (XO) inhibitor for the treatment of chronic hyperuricemia in patients with gout. This enzyme is involved in oxidation of Hypoxanthi ... Read More
Industrial waste water and sewage water is extensively used to irrigate various crops in Karachi. The research was conducted to evaluate the effect of textile industrial waste water, on morphological ... Read More
Effects of seed priming with sodium nitroprusside (SNP) on seed germination and seedling growth under osmotic stress induced by polyethylene glycol (PEG) were investigated. Seed priming treatments wer ... Read More
The present investigation related with the distribution of the four selected mullet species (Mugilidae) found on the Karachi Coast. About 1006 samples of the four selected mullet species were collecte ... Read More
Phosphorus use efficiency of urea phosphate (17% N and 44% P2O5 ) and di-ammonium phosphate (18% N and 46% P) were evaluated in saline soil (ECe10.05 dS/m & pH 7.64) on wheat, grown in pots containing ... Read More
High temperature is most important abiotic stress which causes morphological and physiological changes in plants. It is needed to screen those genotypes that can perform well under elevated temperatur ... Read More
Docking of small molecules within the binding site of the macromolecules and estimation of the binding affinity of those compounds is a vital part of structure based drug design. The current study ill ... Read More
Growth of Crassostrea gryphoides (Schlotheim 1813) cultured through rafts at Ambrah creek, Garho and Wari creek, Shah Bunder has been described. The spats established in three months in Ambrah creek a ... Read More
A survey was conducted to investigate plant parasitic nematodes associated with Cherry (Prunus avium L.) in Balochistan. A total of nine nematode genera were recorded from six localities namely Kalat, ... Read More
The histamine H3 receptor subtype negatively modulates the release of various neurotransmitters such as histamine, glutamate, norepinephrine, acetylcholine and many others mainly in the CNS and H3 ant ... Read More
The pest relationship of Common grass yellow [Eurema hecabe (Linnaeus, 1758)] with Acacia stenophylla A. Cunn. Ex. Benth., an Australian plant grown in the department of Botany, University of Karachi, ... Read More
Forty six fungal species belonging to 21 genera were isolated from seed samples of lentil collected from different localities of Pakistan viz; Karachi (2), Swabi (1) and Ghazi (1) by component plating ... Read More
The concentrations and spatial distributions of different pollutants, including ammonia, Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Cyanide, Dissolved Oxygen (DO), oil and grease ... Read More
An investigation was carried out on Heteroptera fauna of Parachinar, located in west of Peshawar (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan).Twenty one species belonging eighteen genera from five different familie ... Read More
Learning Disability (LD) is said to affect the abilities of brain to receive, process and store information causing difficulties for an individual to read, write or learn. Learning disabilities may ha ... Read More
Twenty five T. populnea (L) Sol. ex. Corr. plants (1.2 to 5m in height) cultivated in saline soils of ECe : 1.56 to 64.7 dS-1 were studied for various morphometric and fecundity parameters. The plants ... Read More
During December 2010, six cestodes were collected from the intestine of a bird, common teal (Anas crecca L.) from Hub Dam, district Lasbela, Balochistan, Pakistan. The cestode was named Diorchis shauk ... Read More
Eight acnthocephalon worms were collected from the intestine of freshwater fish (Cirrhinus mrigala (Ham.) from Kalri Lake, Sindh, Pakistan. This worm was identified as a new species, Neoechinorhynchus ... Read More
Fourteen described pycnogonid species are recorded from Pakistan waters for the first time. These records increase the known species to sixteen. The pycnogonid fauna in the region is poorly studied an ... Read More
Methanolic extract of Cassia italica and Pluchea wallichiana have shown antimicrobial activity against ten different species of microorganisms. ... Read More
Eight compounds viz., β -amyrin (1), β -amyrin acetate (2), (+) – syringaresinol (3), ent-pimara- 8 (14), 15-dien-19-oic acid (4), pluviatilol (5), β-sitosterol (6), β -sitosterol 3-O-β-D – glucopyran ... Read More
The efficiency of acidic phosphate fertilizer is considered better as compared to basic phosphate fertilizers in calcareous soils. Urea phosphate (UP), an acidic fertilizer (pH, 2) having 17% N and 44 ... Read More
The research study was conducted on farmer’s field in village Dhakki, Dera Ismail Khan (KPK) during Kharif season, 2011 to determine the effect of integrated nutrient management on the growth and yiel ... Read More
Five Oak species found in Pakistan are Q. baloot, Q. dilatata, Q. incana, Q. glauca and Q. semecarpifolia. The seed storage proteins in these five species of Oak found in Pakistan were analyzed. Prote ... Read More
This work presents the method of computing growth-and-obesity profiles of children of still-growing parents (under-21 father and under-19 mother). The method for generating growth-and-obesity profiles ... Read More
The ligand-based screening of the chemical compounds found in Glycyrrhiza glabra has been performed by Random forest modeling to search the inhibitors of xanthine oxidase, which has been implicated in ... Read More
Age, sex, hyperlipidemia, hypertension (HT), smoking, diabetes (DB) and familial causes are considered as the major risk factors of ischemic heart disease (IHD). High levels of plasma homocysteine (Hc ... Read More
The Study was carried out to analyze infestation of isopod parasites in the commercially important fish Rastrelliger kanagurta. It was observed that these parasites create serious damage to branchial ... Read More
The ecology of free-living nematodes in various natural salinity-affected habitats (viz. Mc Murdo and Taylor valleys of Antarctica, estuaries, deep Sea, Aral Sea bottom, halophytic tuft grass nematode ... Read More
Throughout the world heavy metal pollution is considered a serious issue. Pakistan is also facing problem of industrial, municipal, vehicular and air pollution. While some of the heavy metals play a v ... Read More
The Karachi region presents the landforms of varied nature and origin ranging from the arid to fluvial and marine landscapes. This assemblage of landscape reflects polygenesis in origin. Structurally ... Read More
Bone pain has become a common problem in pre and post menopausal women. This study was conducted in the Department of Physiology, University of Karachi and included only female subjects of age between ... Read More
Eight species of Sardinellas are reported from Pakistan. Of these Sardinella longiceps, S. sindensis, S. gibbosa and S. albella are of common occurrence in Pakistan. Report of S. atricauda from Pakist ... Read More
Down Syndrome (Ds) is one of the most common syndromes among children. This phenomenon has been reported in one child out of 800 children. Children with Ds Suffer from intestine aberration (malformati ... Read More
Alliumonoate, a new cyclopentane derivative, was isolated from the chloroform soluble fraction of Allium victorialis L. Spectroscopic techniques were used to determine the structure of the compound. A ... Read More
Cashmirol Aand B and sorbinol A and B have been isolated from ethyl acetate soluble fraction of Sorbus cashmirana. Their structures were determined through spectroscopic techniques that give significa ... Read More
Field trials were conducted to ascertain the efficacy of three fungicides on leaf spot disease of ginger (Zingiber officianale Rose) at National Root Crop Research Institute, Umudike, Nigeria. The fun ... Read More
The root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are one of the most harmful and most ubiquitous, there is no data about their association with cucumber in the Pothowar region of the Punjab province. Theref ... Read More
The total pod crop of 166 pods was collected from a solitary tree of Cassia fistula L. Excluding unripe pods, 101 mature fruits were airdried for around 100 days in laboratory and studied for their in ... Read More
Cathucotyle arabiansis, a new species, is described from the gills of fish Scomberomorus guttatus of Karachi coast, Pakistan. The present specimens are compared with all existing species of the genus ... Read More
The efficacy of avian Escherichia coli vaccine was studied in the prevention of colibacillosis in layer chicks by using intramuscular and subcutaneous routes. Sixty, one day old Layer chicks were divi ... Read More
The food and feeding habits of Sardinella longiceps Val. (oil sardine), an important food item from coast of Gwadar, Balochistan was investigated for 12 months period . Four hundred and thirty specime ... Read More
Diversity and utilization of nine Gymnosperm species belonging to four families occurring wild in Swat-Kohistan have been described. Each plant is followed by local name, distribution range, short tax ... Read More
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of exercise training program on cardiac function indicated by heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) in the patients who had undergoing coronar ... Read More
Micro and Macroalgal gut content assessments of two commonest limpets: Cellana radiata and Acmaea sp. disclosed that both species are basically microphagous algal grazers but Cellana radiata also graz ... Read More
The present investigation was aimed to determine the effect of aniline on the growth of Bufo melanostictus tadpoles .Pre- metamorphic tadpoles maintained in 0.001Nµg/ml solution of aniline for a perio ... Read More
The present study was carried out to investigate the effect of benzene exposure on some hematological parameters and work related symptoms among workers of shoemaking units in Karachi. A total of 60 s ... Read More
The present paper investigates the evaluation of pregnancy and complicating diseases. A survey was conducted in selected areas of Karachi (North Nazimabad).The pregnant women (19-48 years old) were in ... Read More