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The micromorphological and microchemical investigations of the clinopyroxene grains collected from the fine sand fraction in the surface horizon of the Khurrianwala Soil Series revealed the microtextu ... Read More
Collelolrie/mlll capsid significantly affected the seed rot, fruit rot and die back in test varieties of chillies in vitro conditions. Chilli variety Faisalabad A (Bengali Merch) was found resistant i ... Read More
A two year field experiment showed that application of ~ N as basal and ~ N as foliar spray at growth stage 3 increased grain yield of wheat by 43.2% compared to that obtained by applying full N (100 ... Read More
Seven exotic cultivars of tomato namely Tanja, Chico III, F.M.-9, Eva, Riogrande, Savio and NARC-l including Roma local as check were evaluated to select varieties suitable for autumn and spring seaso ... Read More
Tight-bud flowers oftuberosewrapped in aluminum lamination foil and stored at 4 ° C lasted longer (32.9 days) in the storage compared with partially-open or half-open flowers packed in the cellophane ... Read More
Effect of salinity on three Leucaena ieucocephala varieties was studied in bydroponic culture. Differences in seed germination, plant growth and ionic composition were considered to determine relative ... Read More
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate total dry matter (TOM) accumulation, distribution of TOM in different plant components, seed yield and yield components. Genotypes differed significantly i ... Read More
Five exotic varieties of mandarin were compared with one commercially important local mandarin variety "Kinnow" at National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad. Wilking produced maximum number of ... Read More
Three mungbean varieties were exposed to ultraviolet radiations and their MJ generations were subjected to three different selection procedures, viz, single plant selection, line selection and bulk me ... Read More
The present study was conducted to establish baseline profiles of various macrophage functions in three commonly used laboratory animals viz., rabbits, guinea pigs and rats. All experiments were carri ... Read More
Mean squares obtained from combining ability analysis showed that gca, sea and reciprocal effects were significant for height of the main stem, number of monopodia! and sympodial branches. The relativ ... Read More
The Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) in Faisalabad city mainly nests in tree cavities. Mating was observed from March through May. Egg laying took place in mid-April. Incubation period lasted for ... Read More
This paper estimates the extent of price distortions between domestic and world market prices of rice resulting from government pricing policies. Time series data from various secondary sources formed ... Read More
The study regarding the supply projections of potato crop in the Punjab predicted that the area under potato is projected to increase from 96,587 ha in 1995- 96 to 1,48,821ha in the year 2000-01 and t ... Read More
Six new Pakistani wheat varieties namely Pak-81, Faisalabad-83, Punjab-85, Pasban-90, Rohtas-90 and Inqilab-91 were tested for milling and baking properties. The particle size index varied significant ... Read More
Data on the performance records of 582 Nili-Ravi buffaloes kept at the Livestock Experiment Station, Bahadurnagar, Okara for the years 1934-85were analysed to estimate repeatability of some reproducti ... Read More
Data on part production records of first lactation of 259 Sahiwal cows maintained at the Livestock Production Research Institute, Bahadurnagar (Okara), during 1979-89 were collected and analysed. The ... Read More
Antibody titre against Toxocara vitulorum was determined by indirect haemagglutination (IHA) test in the purified colostral immunoglobulins of 10 crossbred cows. All cows had a varying amount (1:4-1:3 ... Read More
One hundred and eighty day-old broiler chicks were reared upto 7 weeks of age. They were provided different space densities of 1.0 and 0.8 sq. flobird-t with three photoperiods l.e, 24, 20 and 16 hour ... Read More
A study involving 240 broiler chicks was conducted to observe the influence of different levels (0,50, 100, 150 ppm) of pesticide (Lannate) on the blood chemistry of the broiler chicks fed rations con ... Read More
Water samples from 218 different sources such as hand pumps, donkey type pumps, tubewells and open wells were collected at random in and around Faisalabad city to determine the concentration of calciu ... Read More
Though the importance of gram in terms of its nutritive and economic value is unquestionable yet we have still not been able to exploit its potential yield mainly due to the non-adoption of plant prot ... Read More
A reliable estimate of crop water requirement is one of the key design criteria required for planning, designing and operation of irrigation schemes. This, in turn, requires accurate estimtion of refe ... Read More
Splenic and cell culture haemorrhagic enteritis (HE) vaccines were administered to separate groups of 4-week old commercial and specific-pathogen-free (SPF) poults. SPF poults receiving both vaccines ... Read More
Growth and sulphur relations of corn, sunflower and rapeseed were studied in greenhouse in.solution culture containing 0 and 1 mM S. Growth of the three plant species was affected with characteristic ... Read More
The estimates of broadsense heritability and genetic advance for number of bolls, yield of seed cotton and boll weight were made in an F2 population developed through a 4 x 4 diallel cross in cotton. ... Read More
Two commercially important cultivars 'Poosa green' and 'Tu ' were compared for yield at different nitrogen rates (control, 112, 168 and 224 kg ha-!) as urea. Variety 'TIJ' produced higher yield kg-1 a ... Read More
The in vivo propagation of guava (Psidium guajava L.) cv.Sufeda by T-grafting was investigated at 6 times from April, 15, at monthly interval up to September, 15. Three different scionwoods of ev. Suf ... Read More
he studies on maize production as affected by green manuring and fertilization were carried out at the Agronomic Research farm, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad during the year 1988. A quadrupli ... Read More
Analysis of the data following combining ability technique showed that gca, sea and reciprocal effects were significant for the expression of the three characters studied here, except for staple len ... Read More
Growth regulating substances (2, 4-D, GAl and planofix) were applied in different doses to minimize the fruit drop in Pineapple, sweet orange. The summer or June drop was reduced significantly by all ... Read More
Apical dominance in single-node rooted cuttings of cultivars Apricot Silk, King's Ransom, Peace, Wendy Cussons and Alec's Red was checked at an early stage using 2-chlorethyl phosphonic acid (ethephon ... Read More
Comparative efficacyof six combination insecticides viz.,Azocard, Pay-off plus, Laser, Mavrik-B, Deltaphos-R and Nurelle-D were tested at Toba Tek Singh during 1987.Azocard 44 EC reduced the jassid po ... Read More
The study was conducted in rural areas of district Sargodha. The respondents were classified into two age groups i.e., 15-49 and more than 50 years. The main objective was to explore whether or not th ... Read More
This mini-review focuses on the microbial production of phytohormones including auxins, cytokinins and ethylene derived from exogenously applied precursors. The L-tryptophan, adenine plus isopentyl al ... Read More
Human nutrition is an economic, educational as well as a scientific problem which becomes more involved due to population explosion. Developing countries such as Pakistan are evidently in the grip of ... Read More
The most common and traditional method of applying fertiJizer to fruit trees is through the soil. This comprises digging the soil under the plant canopy, mixing fertilizer with the soil followed by ir ... Read More
A study was undertaken for determining the effect of different levels of different fertilizers (diammoniu •.~ phosphate i.e. DAP, urea and potassium sulphate) on soil strength or soil penetration resi ... Read More
Total and differential leukocytic counts were studied in 56 clinically healthy one-humped camels (Came/lis dromedarius) in summer. Twenty-eight of these were males aged 4, 5 to 6, 6 to 7, and more tha ... Read More
The differences is soil hydraulic properties in sloping landstapes are believed to control the rate and movement of infiltrated water which influence the transport of herbicides. The impact of slope p ... Read More
Thirty-eight bacula of the males of Mus musculus bactrianus and Mus booduga/dunni complex were examined. The M.m. bactrianus baculum has a round base gradually extending into a shaft tipped by a carti ... Read More
In order to meet their agricultural needs, farmers have traditionally depended on non-institutional sources of credit. These sources have been insufficient and could provide relief to the farmers only ... Read More
The wool yield records of Awassi sheep maintained at the Livestock Experiment Station, Bahadurnagar, Okara during 1965-X4 were used to determine the heritability of wool yield. The mean Wool yield at ... Read More
The socio-economic aspect of the parents plays an important role in the acquisition of education by their children. It is commonly believed that better the socioeconomic status of an individual, more ... Read More
The comparative efficiency of TM-200 and Biovin-4Oas growth promotants in broilers was studied on 90 day-old chicks. These chicks were divided into 9 groups of 10 chicks each. These groups were random ... Read More
Four commercial chicken broiler breeds were compared after 7 days of foodrestriction for the competence of mononuclear phagocytic system cells. Peritoneal exudate cells collected from food-restricted ... Read More
The study was conducted to determine the types and extent of cruelties inflicted on various species of farm animals in both city and suburban areas located within the radius of 12-15 km from the centr ... Read More
Eight short statured mutants viz. DM-16-5-1, DM-2, DM-107-4, DM-15-4, DM-15-11, DM-24, DM-38 and DM-179-1 and two standard varieties, Basmati 370 and IR 6 were studied for the activities of amylase an ... Read More
Leaf extracts from Azadirachta indica (A. Juss), Withania somnifera (L.) and Eucalyptus citriodora (Hook) were tested for their nematicidal effect on the growth and yield of maize (Zea mays) in microp ... Read More
Response of two Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon] varieties, Dacca and Khabal grass, to different levels was studied in a plot experiment. Salinity was developed artificially at levels of ECe 0.6, 5.0, ... Read More
Field experiment was conducted at Regional Agricultural Research Station, Ishurdi, Bangladesh during rabi, 1991-92 to find the effect of number of rovral sprays on incidence of Altemaria blight and yi ... Read More
The study reports a survey of the operational characteristics of a number of tubewells selected in Faisalabad tehsil focussed at estimating the recoverable hydraulic energy of the free fall of tubewel ... Read More
Studies were undertaken to induce genetic variability in Kabuli chickpea genotypes viz. Il.C's 482, 3279 and 6104 to screen the Mz segregating material and selected morphological mutants in MJ and M4 ... Read More
Forty SI families of suntlower (Helianmus annuus L.) developed from a random mated population were evaluated in the laboratory to determine the extent of relationship between seed weight and ten seedl ... Read More
Effect of three bandages, namely sanhemp fibre, polyethylene strips and plastic tape on the efficiency of two grafting techniques, veneer grafting and T-grafting in mango were envisaged. The sprouted ... Read More
The gene action was ascertained by conducting 6 x 6 diallel cross analysis in all the possible combinations of maize inbred lines. Number of ears plant"! was found to he controlled by over-dominance t ... Read More
The test fungicides significantly enhanced the germination and grain yield of wheat cultivars. Highly significant differences were obtained between years, cultivars and fungicidal treatments. Fcrtex a ... Read More
Field experiment was conducted to study the potential of Azotobacter inoculation for enhancing yield and other growth parameters on a sandy loam soil, given NPK @ 250, 125, 125 kg ha-I,respectively. T ... Read More
Relative salt tolerance of 50 wheat strains was compared at EC of 20 and 40 dS mol. A larger variability exited among the strains when screened at seedling stage. The strains TC-4525 and TC-4537 produ ... Read More
Okra (Hibiscus esculentus] was grown in a field and at the time of maturity, the vegetable was sprayed with 0.1% dichlorvos (DDVP) solution at the rate of 100 gallons acre". Samples of okra were taken ... Read More
Being a conservative solute, bromide was used to trace potential pathways of pesticide transport under conservation tillage in sloping lands. The maximum concentration of bromide (30 ppm) was found at ... Read More
Reliable estimate of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity and soil moisture retention curves of a soil are difficult to obtain because of their extensive variability in the field. A laboratory pressure ... Read More
Farmer focused research has been conducted on wheat crop in order to identify differences in irrigation strategies at improved and unimproved watercourses. Irrigation farming was studied in fields of ... Read More
Population of Pakistan is increasing at a burgeoning rate of 3% per annum but the performance of livestock sector is very poor. The present growth rate of livestock products is insufficient to meet ev ... Read More
The data on 112 lactation records of Sahiwal cows kept at the Livestock Experiment Station, Khizarahad were analysed to study the effect of weight at first calving on first lactation performance. The ... Read More
Comparative yield performance of some new and old cultivars of autumn sugarcane was seen at the Postgraduate Agriculture Research Station (PARS), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. The cultivars c ... Read More
Limnological parameters of the two freshwater fish ponds treated with artificial feed or buffalo dung were studied. There were no significant differences between water temperature, light penetration, ... Read More
Limnological parameters of the two freshwater fish ponds treated with artificial feed or buffalo dung were studied. There were no significant differences between water temperature, light penetration, ... Read More
Some characteristics such as educational level, total land holding, orchard size and annual income of apple growers in Quetta district were explored. Types of apple varieties grown by them were also i ... Read More
The reported study presents testing and evaluation of a modified BCW flume. Using this flume, the discharge of four lined watercourses was measured and compared with the flow rate estimate by Manning' ... Read More
Length-weight relationships of three major carps viz. Calla calla, Labeo rohita and Ci"hilla mrigala, in ponds treated differently with inorganic, organic fertilizers and artilicial feed, followed the ... Read More
n this study on M30, 13 N-banded chromosomes have been identified. The chromosomes IB to 7B, 2A, 3A, 4A, SA, 7A and 2D have shown clear dark bands. All the chromosomes of M30 were found to be similar ... Read More
A 5 x 5 diallel cross experiment on bread wheat revealed that the genetic interactions were apparently of overdominance type for number of tillers plant-I and number of grains spike-I, determining del ... Read More
The efficiency of different N fertilizers and their mixture under two salinity levels i.e. control (ECc = 1.7 dS mol) and EC. = 10 dS m-t was compared by recording the number of tillers, straw and pad ... Read More
Fifteen wheat varieties/lines were sown under greenhouse and in normal field conditions. Phenotypic and genotypic correlations among the seedling traits, some mature plant attributes, protein contents ... Read More
Effect of planting gcometry and water stress on the seed yield and quality of spring planted sunflower hybrid "SF 100" was studied under field conditions. Crop grown without water stress (five irrigat ... Read More
In PVC pipes (40 X 5 cm), 30 em columns using silt loam soil samples were prepared and bulk density of 1.35 g cm-3 was achieved. Canal water (control) and Ca concentrations of 6, 10 and 14 me L-l were ... Read More
A study was conducted from 1988 to 1990 at National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad to evaluate twelve varieties of Sweet Ornage (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck). Campbel Valencia produced 62.00 kg ... Read More
Mean squares for both general and specific combining ability, and reciprocal effects were highly significant for the expression of yield of seed-collon, number of bolls, boll weight, seed index and li ... Read More
Diallel technique was used for the study of some morphological plant characters in a diallel cross of four varieties of G. hirsutum L. Additive variation complicated with some non-allelic interaction ... Read More
The experiment was carried out to study the effect of 4 nitrogen levels on grain yield and quality of maize. The yield with 200 kg nitrogen ha·1 was 7130 kg ha·1 but was 5450 ha·1 without nitrogen. Th ... Read More
Dry seeds of 'Green Feast' pea variety were exposed to 0, 5, 10 and 15 kR doses of gamma rays (Cow) and variability for growth characteristics was studied in MI' Higher radiation doses (10 and 15 kR) ... Read More
Four sunflower varieties and their all possible crosses excluding reciprocals were studied for the estimation of genetic variability and correlations of various plant traits with bird damage. The esti ... Read More
The authors have collected and described 2 new species, viz., Rubroscirus rasile and R. otiosus from Pakistan. A key to 6 new species has been given. Studies ofthe phenetic affinities of species taxa ... Read More
The sample for present study comprised of 36 farmers holding different farm sizes. The commodities chosen were wheat, maize and sugarcane. Twenty-four; each of commission agents, wholesalers and retai ... Read More
Field experiments were conducted on potato, sorghum, berseem and barley from 1983 to 1985 to see the effect of different water stress levels on soil water uptake from various soil depths. Maximum wate ... Read More
There is a trade off between economic development and environmental deterioration. Environmental pollution problems are, in fact, a necessary evil of modern industrial era and water pollution is one o ... Read More
The area under rice has increased from 790,000 ha in 1948 to 2 million ha in 1978 and has almost remained stable around the same figure since then which is attributable mainly to the fact that rice cr ... Read More
The response of artificial feed (30%( crude protein) in major carps rearing pond has been studied. The results indicated the use of artificial feed in two ways: (i) direct utilization of feed, and (ii ... Read More
A survey was carried out to determine the extent of and preference for animals slaughtered on Eid-ul-Azha involving630 respondents from parts of three districts of the Punjab (Sargodha, Faisalabad and ... Read More
Date is an important fruit of Pakistan. Good quality dates are consumed as such. On the other hand, second quality dates are virtually wasted. In this study, an effort was made to utilize inferior gra ... Read More
The production of kinnow has been steadily increasing but its exports have been static since many years. The present study was planned to investigate the problems in export of kinnow from Pakistan. Al ... Read More
Studies pertaining to the effect of some planting techniques on the yield and quality of autumn sugarcane at different plant populations were conducted. Planting techniques comprised single rows 60 em ... Read More
Over a 10 years period, data were collected on 374 H.Friesian X Sahiwal/Cholistani crossbred cows maintained at the Livestock Production Research Institute, Bahadurnagar (Okara). Overall first lactati ... Read More
A study was conducted to construct a forecasting model for the annual maximum flood data of river Indus at Sukkur barrage. The Box-Jenkins ARlMA (autoregressive integrated moving average) methodology ... Read More
The study was conducted in rural areas of Faisalabad district. A sample of 500 parents was selected from two rural communities. The main objective was to find out differentials, if any, between socioe ... Read More
Sociological and autecological investigations were carried out about Atriplex crassifolia. Association Atriplicetum crassifolia was classified from waste lands around Lahore using Zurich Montpellier S ... Read More
Prevalence of haemonchosis was 21.7 and 10.9% in slaughtered sheep and goats, respectively. The rate of infection was higher (P <0.01) in male than in female sheep, whereas there was no difference in ... Read More
Five hundred serum samples collected from Faisalabad abattoir, Livestock Production Research Institute, Bahadurnagar (Okara) and private livestock farms were processed for antibody detection to differ ... Read More
Of 12 salt-efflorescences collected in the winter of 1989-90, from the Rechna doab, all qualified as "saline" with pH ranging from 8.1 to 10.5, EC 34.4 to 89.7 dS m-1.Solution (l:iO) chemistry was dom ... Read More