Moorthy S. Muthuswamy
...has a good chance of reinvigorating modernity in affected Muslim communities....
Imtiaz Hussain, M. Sajid, Noor ul Amin, Abdul Mateen Khattak, Abrar Hussain Shah, S. Mussarat Hussain, Sayed Hussain and Nagina Zeb
...ion perform the best for vigorous growth of Silvery cuttings under the agro climatic condition of Peshawar, Pakistan. ...
Iftikhar Ahmad, Abdul M. Saleem, Ghulam Mustafa, Khurram Ziaf, Irfan Afzal and Muhammad Qasim
...germination and seedling vigor of Gerbera jamesonii and Zinnia elegans. Seeds of Gerbera jamesonii and Zinnia elegans were primed in salt solutions and distilled water for 24 h and 12 h, respectively, and germinated at 25 ± 1 °C with 40-60% R.H. in 16/8 hours day/night conditions. Results revealed that pre-sowing seed treatment particularly halopriming with CaCl2 was the most effective for invigoration of gerbera ...
Ehtisham Shakeel Khokhar1*, Amir Shakeel1, Muhammad Amir Maqbool1, Muhammad Waheed Anwar1, Zoraiz Tanveer1 and Muhammad Fahad Irfan2
...enetic advance suggested vigorous phenotypic selection in breeding population for the improvement of crop traits. The correlation coefficient depicted that seed cotton yield is positively associated with other yield contributing traits suggesting that more than one trait can be used as indirect selection criteria in segregating populations. ...
Parvez Khaliq*, Muhammad Azim Malik** and M. Aslam Gill***
EFFECT OF CROPPING SYSTEMS, TILLAGE PRACTICES AND FERTILIZER TREATMENTS ON WHEAT STAND ESTABLISHMENT UNDER RAINFED CONDITIONS
...s ultimately resulted in vigorous crop stand establishment. The biomass harvest observed at 2-3 leaf stage in the fallow-wheat system was higher than other systems under study.
...
Adnan Umair*, Safdar Ali**, Muhammad Sarwar***, Kashif Bashir**, Muhammad Javed Tareen**** and Muhammad Asghar Malik*****
ASSESSMENT OF SOME PRIMING TECHNIQUES IN MUNGBEAN (VIGNA RADIATA) : A GREEN HOUSE STUDY
... house. The seeds were invigorated by traditional soaking (hydropriming), osmo-conditioning using phosphorous (KH PO ; 2 4 -1 200 mM and 400 mM), mannitol (20 and 40 gl ), polyethylene glycol (50 and -1 -1 100 gl ), sodium molybdate dihydrate (0.2 and 0.4 gl ) and hormonal priming by salicylic acid (10 and 20 ppm). Untreated dry seeds were used as control. All the invigoration treatments significantly improved plant
Asif ullah Khan*, Faizan Ullah*, Sultan Mehmood*, Muhammad Irshad* and Farhat Ullah Khan**
ALLELOPATHIC EFFECTS OF JATROPHA CURCAS L. LEAF AQUEOUS EXTRACT ON EARLY SEEDLING GROWTH OF L. PARTHENIUM HYSTEROPHORUS
...e water content and seed vigor index. It was inferred from findings of the present investigation that aqueous extract of exhibits inhibitory effects on growth and development of and therefore could be a potential source of botanical herbicide in the control of this noxious weed species....
Muhammad Akram and Faheem Aftab
THIDIAZURON INDUCES IN VITRO BUD BREAK AND SHOOT DEVELOPMENT FROM NODAL EXPLANTS OF ORTHOTROPIC SHOOTS OF MAIDENHAIR TREE (GINKGO BILOBA L.)
...of shoots with green and vigorous growth. The frequency of bud break was significantly reduced with the increasing concentrations of TDZ. There were 2 phases of callus formation on the explant, i.e., before bud break and after the break. The frequency of callus induction was highest (100%) at 5uM TDZ before bud break along the nodal region. The rate of callus formation was significantly reduced once bud began to break down and initiation of green axillary shoo...
Ihsan Ullah Khan*, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Ayub Khan, Muhammad Ashraf, Ashiq Saleem, Sundas Awan, Samra Azam and Shamim Ul Sibtain Shah
...arent values. The hybrid vigor (%) in the hybrids over the standard check regarding seed yield ranged from 4.84 % in the cross CMS-77 x R-18 to 20.09 % in the cross CMS-77 x R-83(1). The discovery of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility (CMS) and fertility restoration genes gave a new direction to heterosis based sunflower breeding and consequently revolutionized sunflower seed sector. The high impact of heterosis on the yield and other yield contributing traits in the ...
Tian-Yi Zhao1, Zi-Qing Liu2, Bo Yang1, Qiao Gao1, Hong-Yu Zhang1, Pei-Yu He1, Ming-Hua Duan1* and Yu-Li Yan1*
... practice and in blood invigoration. In this article, we want to elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying the effects of APs in the recovery of anemia. Red blood cell count and hemoglobin level in peripheral blood were measured using a fully automatic blood cell counter. Flow cytometry was performed to detect the changes in red blood cell counts and number of T cells in peripheral blood and the spleen. Western blotting was performed to detect Stat5, Bcl-2,...
Wajid Khan* and Raziuddin
...h exploitation of hybrid vigor and segregation. The information generated from this study could be useful for breeders to develop hybrids with better seed yield and oil quality traits through heterosis breeding. ...
Mazhar Habib1, Aamir Saleem1, Arshad Mahmood Malik2*, Sarfraz Ahmed3 and Sameera Arshad4
...s to get sustained grass vigor and optimum herbage yield. ...
Muhammad Abdul Qayyum1*, Farhat Bashir2, Muhammad Mudassar Maqbool3, Anser Ali3, Saqib Bashir1 and Qaiser Abbas4
... was related to seedling vigor and tolerance to salinity, as salt tolerant genotypes with healthy seedlings showed better survival and growth rate under salt stress conditions. The minimum relative growth rate was recorded as 68% to respective control in S-907 genotype at 100 mM NaCl while it was 38% of respective control in C-99-3-115 genotype at 200 mM NaCl stress conditions. In linseed growth, K+/Na+ratio proved to be a critical factor in relative growth ra...
Pushpa1, Nighat Seema Soomro1, Shahla Karim Baloch2, Mehmooda Buriro1, Aijaz Ahmed Soomro1, Muhammad Tahir Khan3, Qamar Uddin Jogi1*, Muhammad Nawaz Kandhro1 and Farheen Deeba Soomro1
...dry weight (g), and seed vigor index of test species was investigated under laboratory conditions. The powder of weed plants produced significantly (p<0.05) harmful outcomes on all growth parameters of wheat varieties as compared to the control treatment. The maximum seed germination (82.16a %), shoot length (27.70 cm), root length (14.90 cm), shoot fresh weight (2.19 g), root fresh weight (1.16 g), shoot dry weight (0.54 g), root dry weight (0.27 g), and s...
Muhammad Iqbal1, Sami Ul-Allah2*, Muhammad Naeem1, Muhammad Ijaz2 and Muhammad Qadir Ahmad3
...eed traits with seedling vigor. 15 cotton cultivars were studied at two levels of irrigation during 2014-15. Results showed highly significant (p≤0.05) genotypic differences for seed and root‒shoot traits. Reduction in fresh weight of different cultivars due to water stress ranged 14.74 to 29.81% and reduction in dry weight due to water stress range 12.52 to 43.30%. Whereas increase in root-shoot ratio was observed due to water stress and it ranged from 1...
Shaiza Rasool1, Iftikhar Ahmad1*, Khurram Ziaf1, Irfan Afzal2, Muhammad A.S. Khan1, Muhammad Aashir Sajjad1 and Muhammad Zain Ali1
Seed Conditioning Effects on Germination Performance, Seedling Vigor and Flower Production of Zinnia elegans
...rm germination, seedling vigor, and flower production in zinnia (Zinnia elegans Jacq.). Two initial laboratory experiments evaluated the timing and frequency of seed magnetic stimulation to select the most promising treatments for field production testing and flowering. In the first experiment, a 3% moringa leaf extract (MLE) showed the earliest (2.8 d) and the highest germination rate (90%) with an average root length of 4.2 cm. Hydro-priming resulted in the ...
Muhammad Muhsin1, Muhammad Nawaz2, Imran Khan1, Muhammad Bilal Chattha3,Sadia Khan4, Muhammad Talha Aslam1, Muhammad Mahmood Iqbal5, Muhammad Zubair Amin6, Muhammad Ahsin Ayub7, Usman Anwar8, Muhammad Umair Hassan1 and Muhammad Umer Chattha1*
...ter stand establishment, vigorous germination, and increase in yield related traits.
...
Dara Jaff1,2* and Michael C. Jarvis2
Ayesha Manzoor1, Muhammad Saqib Naveed1, Sayed Rashad Ali1, Danish Ibrar2, Sairah Syed1, Sharmin Ashraf1 and Rafiq Ahmed1*
...od, seed size (mm), seed vigor index and total seed yield/plant(g). However, extra wide stecklings (8cm) significantly reduced all morphological and reproductive growth parameters. Therefore, treatments T6 and T7 proved to be better for production of higher seed yield with improved quality....
Muhammad Yaseen*, Muhammad Adnan, Muhammad Luqman, Muhammad Zeeshan Majeed and Muhammad Umer Mehmood
...r in the sector have the vigor to provide us with facts about rural youth. Keeping in view the importance of rural youth in agriculture, the present study is designed to find the reasons that hinder rural youth involvement to encourage their participation in agriculture. Based on the facts regarding the population of rural youth, a sample of 450 respondents was selected using a multistage sampling technique. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was u...
Noor Muhammad* and Shah Alam Khan
...ar also exhibited strong vigor against mustard aphid and minimal symptoms of damages were observed. The yield losses based on DWT and TI in susceptible cultivar “Abaseen”was 40.79%, whereas it was 23.56% in Zahoor which confirmed the reduced percent yield losses in the later genotype. This study identified “Zahoor” as the most tolerant cultivar to mustard aphid followed by KS-75 and Omega hence, other susceptible cultivars should be rep...
Noor Muhammad* and Shah Alam Khan
...and Zahoor showed strong vigor against mustard aphid and symptoms of attack/damages were observed....
Ali Wahdan1*, Mahmoud Ezzat1, Fatma Youssef2, Manal Munier2, Elsayyad M. Ahmed3, Marwa Abo Hashem1
... selected MRSA strains invigorate the possibility of transmission among different sources of food, animals, and human, which causes nosocomial infections.
Keywords | Ica-MRSA, PCR, Virulence factors, Resistant factors, Phylogenomics.
...
Madad Ali1, Muhammad Ahsan1, Muhammad Zubair Akram*2 and Samreen Nazeer3
...eved by utilizing hybrid vigor. A field trial during 2018 was conducted at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad to screen out the best single cross doubled haploid hybrids of maize using eleven doubled haploid single cross hybrids. A randomized complete block design was used to conduct the experiment with three replications under normal environmental conditions. Data for different growth, yield, and agro-morphological parameters were analyzed at a 5% proba...
M.M.A. Youssef† and W.M.A. El-Nagdi
...atode damage index. Host vigor calculated as an average of percentages
root weight potential and the tested technological characteristics (total soluble solids %) were used as a new scale to
assess host reaction. The combination between the degree of susceptibility/resistance and host vigor of each variety
gave a better evaluation and clear relationship between nematode infection and sugar...
W.M.A. El-Nagdi, M.M.A. Youssef† and M.F.M. Eissa
...
their plant growth vigor. It is concluded that younger date palm seedlings seem to require root tissue maturation
before expressing full resistance against root-knot nematode.
...
Muhammad Akram¹,²*, Rashid Mahmood³, Fahim Arshad4 and Umer Farooq Gohar5
...ultured every 15 days. Invigoration of albino shoots with fresh MS basal medium resulted in multiple green buds, which successfully transformed into 54.60 and 652.78 healthy shoots in 30 and 120 days, respectively. These shoots were rooted, acclimatized, and transferred in field conditions. The present study thus establishes a simple in vitro liquid culture system for the mass propagation of P. minima, providing a strategy for the long-term conservation of mul...
Faiza Siddique1, Muhammad Shahzad Ahmed1, Rana Arsalan Javaid1, Alvina Hanif1, Maria Rabnawaz1, Muhammad Arshad2, Irum Raza3 and Abid Majeed1*
...e, emergence percentage, vigor index, seedling height, fresh weight and dry weight of seedling are significant at 10% alpha, likewise the interaction of genotypes x treatments (G x T) is significant for seedling height at 1% alpha in all rice lines, seedling height and dry weight decreased along with elevated stress levels. Four lines, NRPC-9, NRPC-7, NRPC-6, and NRPC-1 were shown to be tolerant at 15% PEG 6000 water stress level while all lines tolerated 10% ...
Akbar Hayat1*, Muhammad Asim1*, Tehseen Ashraf2, Ehsan-Ul-Haque1, Rabia Zulifqar2, Maryam Nasir3, Ahmed Raza1, Fahim Khadija1, Sohaib Afzal1 and Shafqat Ali1
...roduction of healthy and vigorous plants in the nursery. The trial was designed with seven treatment combinations of growing substrates that was five times repeated for each treatment in Completely Randomized Design (CRD). The rough lemon rootstock was tested for growth with all different types of media as T1 = Soil + silt + sand (2:1:1), T2 = Rice husk + sand + soil (2:1:1), T3 = Bagass + sand + soil (2:1:1), T4 = Wheat straw + sand + soil (2:1:1), T5 = Rice ...
A.A.Farrag; I.A.M. Ibrahim and, H.M. Mazyad
...trees those showing less vigorous and some abnormalities on growth without leaf symptoms to different herbaceous hosts including Chenopodium quinoa wild, Ch. amaranticolor (Cost&Reyyn) and Phaseolus vulgaris L cv. Pinto. Typical chlorotic spots were appeared on the woody indicator GF305 leaves one month after chip-budding or infected buds. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) procedure was used to amplify fragments using coat protein ge...
Khalid Ali1, Asif Tanveer1, Naila Farooq2, Tasawer Abbas3*, Ghulam Sarwar2, Muhammad Ather Nadeem4, Ishtiaq Hassan3, Muhammad Mansoor Javaid4, Anees-ul-Hussnain Shah5, Bilal Ahmad Khan4 , Ali Raza6
...al to germinate and grow vigorously at an increased salt concentration as compared to medium and small seeds. Salt stress caused 40-73%, 59-96% and 40-100% inhibition in seed germination, seedling length and dry weight, respectively. Among various salt stresses CaCl2 showed less inhibition of R. capitata. The higher tolerance of this weed to wide range of salt stresses is alarming factor under current and anticipated increase in salinity, as it will disturb ma...
Muhammad Sikander Hayyat1*, Muhammad Ehsan Safdar1, Muhammad Mansoor
Javaid1
...ling length and seedling vigor index by 35.13, 23.26
and 41.61% compared to control. It very well may be presumed that liquid concentrates of
leave and stem soil-decomposed plant residues of 6% concentration had different kind of
allelochemicals that inhibited the germination, seedling growth and development of rice.
...
M E SAFDAR,A ALI,A TANVEER,M YASEEN,Z IQBAL,K JIBRAN
Amjad Ali Ch., Tariq Mahmood, Shahzad Fazal and Nowsherwan Zarif
...alue and sustained grass vigor....
Mohit Gera, Neelu Gera and Farooq Ahmad Dar
...F5 were found to be more vigorous on the basis of nursery performance and are recommended for establishment of seed orchards and for future improvement programs. Pod length, pod width, number of seeds per pod, seed weight and germination were observed to be important characters in evaluating the genotypes....
M. K. Hossain, B. M. Khan and B. Koirala
...ing dry weight, seedling vigor index and seedling quality index Therefore, presowing treatments of T5 and T4 (seeds soaked in concentration H2SO4 for seven minutes or five minutes followed by cold water washing) or, T1 (soaking the seeds in cold water for 48 hours following storage in wet pit for 12 days) may be recommended for the maximum germination and quality seedling production of T. grandis in the nursery.
Key words: Presowing treatments, ...
Hanif Gul and Mirza Hakim Khan
...and reset the health and vigor of the trees, thereby naturally eliminating the insect pests....
Siraj-ud-Din and Abdul Waheed Baloch
...eep the period happy and vigorous for a longer period of time. Biological treatment to sand dune stabilization is the only permanent and everlasting solution to this problem....
Altaf Hussain
...r provenance is the most vigorous amongst all the provenances. Provenances originated from Batrasi, Dadar and Ghoragali are the best in diameter and height growth under local climatic conditions at Pir Sohawa, Islamabad. ...
Ghulam Akbar, Muhammad Arshad and Taj Naseeb Khan
...ere morphologically more vigorous
than those arising from root stumps. Thus seeding method
if synchronized with suitable soil moisture can prove
more effective in terms of DMY in desert areas like
Cholistan....
Muhammad Tahir Laeeq
...e Lot A had the highest
vigor followed by lot B, while lot C was the lowest in
vigor....
K. M. Siddiqui
...over the world have been vigorously
advocating forest conservation for human welfare for
many decades. They tried to tell all those who would
listen, that forest have multiple benefits e.g. timber,
fuelwood, fodder, wildlife, water and recreation. Their
voice was truly one in the wilderness. They did not receive
any particular attention and political support for a long
time. The forestry problems were given a very low
priority in national and inter...
S. Rehman
... however, plant sprouted vigorously
during next season i.e. February - March 1982 and
produced fodder at the rate of 19.7075 metric tons per
hectare and seed collected from the crop was 600.96 kg.
Per hectare. It was observed that plant can withstand
high rate of soil moisture stress and is suited to arid
conditions prevailing in Mastung Valley.
...
Rehana Perveen, Mehmood Akram and Ihsan Ilahi
... 1mg/1 of NAA
exhibited vigorous growth when transferred to MS medium
supplemented with 1 mg/1 both of Naphthalene acetic
(NAA) and Benzyl amino purine (BAP). The effect of
varying concentrations of NAA &BAP alone and in
combination with each other was studied on further
growth and differentiation of the callus. At NAA 1 mg/1,
BAP 0.5 mg/1 NAA 0.5 mg/1 roots developed at 0.5mg/1 of
BAP & NAA 0.5+1.0 mg/1 of BAP shoot buds also developed.
Callus pieces...
Abdul Aziz Khan and M. N. Malik
...re they normally exhibit vigorous growth and, comparatively, do not require much care after germination....
Rafaqat Hussain Shah1, Mohammad Safdar Baloch1*, Muhammad Zubair2, Khalid Naveed3, Muhammad Amjad Nadim1 and Aminullah Khan4
Pangesti Nugrahani1*, Hery Purnobasuki2, Arif Nur Muhammad Ansori3, Jatuporn Anuchai4 and Anugerah Dany Priyanto5,6
...s with robust growth and vigor, although the production of shoots was limited. The addition of 3 mgL-1 BAP at 1/2 MS gave the best number of shoots....
Roshita Ibrahim1*, Anis Nursyazwani Aminuddin1 and Mohd Nizam Lani2
...low-cost production, and vigorous mycelium growth of grey oyster mushroom (Pleurotus sajor-caju) make it popular among small farmers to commercially cultivate it in Malaysia. This study explored the impact of different physical stimulations on the growth and yield of grey oyster mushrooms. The treatments included individual applications of electrical shock (12V; 13A) and high light intensity (1500 Lux) which were studied previously, as well as combined ...
Mahisba Waris1, Muhammad Azim Khan2*, Muhammad Fawad1*, Nabeela Jafer1, Rashid Hussain3 and Haseeb Ahmad3
...e and shoot length. Seed vigor index and germination inhibition of the seeds ranged from 0 and -100%, respectively. Highest coefficient of velocity for both germination and shoot length was observed at 75% concentration, whereas, germination was completely inhibited at 100% concentration at 100% concentration. It is concluded that moringa extract at lower to moderate levels stimulate germination and seedling growth of okra, whereas at high concentration cause ...
