Pakistan Journal of Botany - 41 (1), 2009

Contents [Volume 41(1) February, 2009]:

1. Pollen flora of Pakistan - LXI. Violaceae
Anjum Perveen and Muhammad Qaiser

2. Tissue culture of gerbera
Nafees Altaf, Abdul Rehman Khan, Liaqat Ali and Inksar Ahmad Bhatti

3. Ethnomedicinal studies on plant resources of tehsil Shakargarh, district Narowal, Pakistan
Andleeb Anwar Sardar and Zaheer-ud-Din Khan

4. Indigenous medicinal plants used by local women in southern Himalayan regions of Pakistan
Rizwana Aleem Qureshi and Muhammad Asad Ghufran

5. Toxic effects of lead and cadmium on germination and seedling growth of Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth.
Z.R. Farooqi, M. Zafar Iqbal, M. Kabir and M. Shafiq

6. Flowers’ shedding under high temperature in mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek)
Gul Sanat Shah Khattak, Iqbal Saeed and Tilla Muhammad

7. Mineral nutrient composition of different ecotypes of white clover and their nutrient credit to soil at Rawalakot Azad Jammu and Kashmir
M. Kaleem Abbasi, Majid Mahmood Tahir, Asad Hussain Shah and Farhat Batool

8. Evaluation of ecological aspects of roadside vegetation around Havalian city using multivariate techniques
Sheikh Saeed Ahmed, Saima Fazal, Ehsan Elahi Valeem, Zafar Iqbal Khan, Ghulam Sarwar and Zafar Iqbal

9. Determination of forage concentrations of lead, nickel and chromium in relation to the requirements of grazing ruminants in the Salt Range, Pakistan
Kafeel Ahmad, Zafar Iqbal Khan, Muhammad Ashraf, Ehsan Elahi Valeem, Zahid Ali Shah and L.R. McDowell

10. Mineral status of forage and its relationship with that of plasma of farm animals in southern Punjab, Pakistan
Zafar Iqbal Khan, Muhammad Ashraf, Kafeel Ahmad, Ehsan Elahi Valeem and L.R. McDowell

11. Foliar application of low-biuret urea and fruit canopy position in the tree influence the leaf nitrogen status and physico-chemical characteristics of kinnow mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco)
Ahmad S. Khan, A.U. Malik, M.A. Pervez, B.A. Saleem, I.A. Rajwana, T. Shaheen and R. Anwar
12. Effect of salt stress on proline accumulation, photosynthetic ability and growth characters in two maize cultivars
Suriyan Cha-um and Chalermpol Kirdmanee

13. Organic and inorganic nitrogen treatments effects on plant and yield attributes of maize in a different tillage systems
Ahmad Khan, M. Tariq Jan, Khan Bahadar Marwat and M. Arif

14. Relationship between leaf acid phosphatase activity and either P nutritional status or P efficiency in rice
Yong-Fu Li, An-Cheng Luo, Xing-Hua Wei and Abdul Khaliq Chaudry

15. Comparative assessment of density of glandular hairs, population and size of aperture of stomata in resistant and susceptible cultivars of chickpea to Ascochyta blight disease
M.A. Randhawa, S.T. Sahi, M.B. Ilyas, M.U. Ghazanfar and N. Javed

16. Legacy study of cotton seed traits in upland cotton using Griffing’s combining ability model
Naqib Ullah Khan, Gul Hassan, K.B. Marwat, M.B. Kumbhar, I. Khan, Z.A. Soomro, M.J. Baloch and M.Z. Khan

17. Effect of GA3 on regeneration response of three tomato cultivars (Lycopersicon esculentum)
Amber Afroz, Zubeda Chaudhry, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Hamid Rashid and Sabaz Ali Khan

18. Genetic variability in sugarcane plantlets developed through In vitro mutagenesis
Imtiaz Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Umar Dahot, Nighat Seema, Shafqat Yasmin, Sajida Bibi, Saboohi Raza and Abdullah Khatri

19. Molecular analysis of genetic diversity in Brassica species
S. J. Abbas­­, Farhatullah, Khan Bahadar Marwat, I.A. Khan and Iqbal Munir

20. Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis of MT-shsp gene of Gossypium arboreum and its relationship with other diploid cotton genomes, G. hirsutum and Arabidopsis thaliana
Tayyaba Shaheen, Muhammad Asif, Yusuf Zafar and Mehboob-ur-Rahman

21. Molecular phylogeny of Eriobotrya Lindl. (Loquat) inferred from internal transcribed spacer sequences of nuclear ribosome
Ping Li, Shunquan Lin, Xianghui Yang, Guibing Hu and Yueming Jiang

22. Generation mean analysis of water stress tolerance in okra (Abelmoschous esculentus L.)
Abdul Naveed, Asif Ali Khan and Iftikhar Ahmad Khan

23. Maize hybrids response to nitrogen rates at multiple locations in semiarid environment
T. Khaliq, A. Ahmad, A. Hussain and M.A. Ali

24. Evaluation of Zn distribution among grain and straw of twelve indigenous wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes
Muhammad Aamer Maqsood, Rahmatullah, Shamsa Kanwal, Tariq Aziz and Muhammad Ashraf

25. Foliar application of plant growth regulators (PGRs) and nutrients for improvement of lily flowers
G. Mustafa Sajid, Mahmoona Kaukab and Zahoor Ahmad

26. Weed communities of wheat crop in district Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan
Rahmatullah Qureshi, Abdul Waheed and M. Arshad

27. Weed community dynamics in wheat crop of district Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan
Abdul Waheed, Rahmatullah Qureshi, G.S. Jakhar and Hayatullah Tareen

28. A new rapid and simple method of screening wheat plants at early stage of growth for salinity tolerance
Abid Mahmood

29. Effect of soil salinity on the yield and yield components of mungbean
Shakil Ahmed

30. Two indigenous aquatic weeds Lemna minor and Spirodella spp., gave promising biological control of mosquito larvae with Rainbow fish on field level in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Rajput Muhammed Tariq, S. Naimul Hasan Naqvi and S.M. Naushad Zafar

31. Diversity of freshwater green macroalgae in the Punjab and neighbouring areas of Pakistan
A. Zarina, Masud-ul-Hasan and Mustafa Shameel

32. Antimicrobial and mutagenic properties of the root tubers of Gloriosa superba Linn. (Kalihari)
Shanmugam Hemaiswarya, Rathinam Raja, Chinnathambi Anbazhagan and Venkatesan Thiagarajan

33. Characterization of Bipolaris sorokiniana isolated from different agro-ecological zones of wheat production in Pakistan
Shahzad Asad, Shamim Iftikhar, Anjum Munir and Iftikhar Ahmad

34. Selection of barley germplasm resistant to spot blotch
Shamim Iftikhar, Shahzad Asad, Atiq-ur-Rehman Rattu, Mohammad Fayyaz and Anjum Munir

35. Composts, compost extracts and bacterial suppressive action on Pythium aphanidermatum in tomato
Raoudha Khanfir Ben Jenana, Rabiaa Haouala, Mohamed Ali Triki, Jean-Jaques Godon, Khaled Hibar, Mohamed Ben Khedher and Belgacem Henchi

36. Evaluation of rice genotypes for resistance against bacterial leaf blight
M.A. Waheed, Inamullah, Habib Ahmad, Sirajuddin, Haidar Ali, A.Q. Khan and A. Khan

37. Screening of mycotoxins in wheat, fruits and vegetables grown in Sindh, Pakistan
Najmus Sahar, Mubarik Ahmed, Zahida Parveen, Amber Ilyas and Abbas Bhutto

38. Postharvest quality of mango (Mangifera indica L.) fruit as affected by chitosan coating
Nadeem Akhtar Abbasi, Zafar Iqbal, Mehdi Maqbool and Ishfaq Ahmad Hafiz

39. Association of Lasiodiplodia theobromae with different decline disorders in mango (Mangifera indica L.)
Muhammad Shahbaz, Zafar Iqbal, Ahmad Saleem and Muhammad Akbar Anjum

40. Additions to uredinales of northern areas of Pakistan
Muhammad Asim Sultan, Ikram-ul-Haq, Hamid Mukhtar, A.N. Khalid, Rukhsana Bajwa and A.R Niazi

41. Occurrence and distribution of citrus tristeza Closterovirus in the Punjab and NWFP, Pakistan
Yasir Iftikhar, M. Aslam Khan, A. Rashid, S.M. Mughal, Z. Iqbal, Asia Batool, M. Abbas, M.M. Khan, S. Muhammad and M.J. Jaskani

42. Role of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria applied in combination with compost and mineral fertilizers to improve growth and yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
M. Javed Akhtar, Hafiz Naeem Asghar, K. Shahzad and M. Arshad

43. Studies on virulence reactions of local isolates of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. Oryzae
Shazia Mannan, Salman Akbar Malik, Iftikhar Ahamad, Javed Iqbal Mirza and Muhammad Afzal Akhtar

44. Agrobacterium mediated tobacco transformation with rice FAE gene and segregation analysis of T1 generation
Khizar Hayat Bhatti and Chaozu He

45. Pathogenic diversity in Ascochyta rabiei (Pass.) Lib., of chickpea
Sayed Rashad Ali, Sh. Muhammad Iqbal, Umer Iqbal, Abdul Ghafoor and Abida Akram

46. Analysis of host plant resistance in some genotypes of maize against Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) (Pyralidae: Lepidoptera)
Muhammad Afzal, Zahid Nazir, Muhammad Hamid Bashir and Bilal Saeed Khan

47. Pathogenesis and control of Myrothecium spp., the cause of leaf spot on bitter gourd (Momordica charantia Linn.)
Nasreen Sultana and A. Ghaffar

48. Seed borne fungi associated with bottle gourd (Lagenaria sicerraria (Moline)
Nasreen Sultana and A. Ghaffar

49. Detection of seed borne mycoflora in maize (Zea mays L.)
Ishrat Niaz and Shahnaz Dawar

50. Some notes on Micromycetes from Turkey
Elşad Hüseyin, Ali S. Bülbül and Hasan Akgül

51. Antibacterial activities of honey, sandal oil and black pepper
Ifra Ghori and Sheikh Saeed Ahmad

52. A report of Paecilomyces variotii on human from Pakistan
Syed Qaiser Abbas, Arif Maan, Javed Iqbal, Mubashir Niaz, Muhammad Waqas, Hussain Ahmed, Asifa Liaqat and Sidra

53. Exogenous application of salicylic acid enhances antioxidative capacity in salt stressed sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) plants
Sibgha Noreen, Muhammad Ashraf, Mumtaz Hussain and Amer Jamil

54. Investigating possibility of using least desirable edible oil of Eruca sativa L., in biodiesel production
Mohammed H. Chakrabarti and Rafiq Ahmad

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