Agriculture is the most important sector of Pakistan. Effective improvement in agricultural productivity depends on appropriate crop protection from pests and diseases. Among these, nematode problem significant importance. Plant-parasitic nematodes are one limiting factors production. The economic importance well recognized all over world as crops damaged by their continuous feeding roots, buds...

Abstract Background The cowpea bruchid, Callosobruchus maculatus is the major postharvest insect pest of seeds in storage. This had led to huge losses and quality deterioration stored that serve as poor man’s meat lieu expensive source developing countries. research was carried out evaluate bioefficacy rice husk, maize cob, groundnut, pods against C. laboratory. Adult mortality, eggs laid, adul...

Plantago ovata Forssk. is an emerging crop yielding psyllium husk, a material comprised of hydrophilic polysaccharides that form mucilage upon wetting. Psyllium husk has important industrial uses including as dietary fibre supplement and textural alternative in gluten-free bread production. Industrial applications require high-quality purity but consistent supply uniform quality often limited b...

Seed germination, seedling emergence and crop establishment are important aspects of canola production, and are the main components of seed/seedling vigour. A major concern of seed businesses and canola growers alike is loss of seed vigour that may go undetected before planting. Two vigour assays, based on off-gassing of ethyl alcohol from poor vigour seed, are being developed. They are a simpl...

It takes three weeks to analyze the germination percentage of Arabica coffee seeds germinated using paper and a three-day water-soaking method. This 3- week period is considered too long for seed distribution remote areas. Thus, we need modify this test needs be modified have shorter time. Temperature treatment one method break dormancy faster germination. study aimed obtain more precise on see...

the objective of this experiment was to investigate inheritance and gene action for resistance to sunn pest (eurygaster integriceps) and related traits in bread wheat including f1, f2 and backcross generations derived from a cross between line 15 as resistance and line 12 as susceptible parents. parents along with f1, f2, bc1 and bc2 generations were evaluated in a randomized complete block des...

The world population growth postulates a necessity for food increase to provide mankind with edible products. A growing number of archaeobotanical finds acorns indicates that they were important as staple some regions. According its characteristics, red oak is one the promising species can resource potential forests in Middle Volga region. Compared local one, wood more resistant vascular and ne...

A find of 2572 charred seeds pea (Pisum sativum L.) was detected at the Late Bronze Age tell settlement Hissar near Leskovac, in Serbia, belonging to Brnjica cultural group, 14-10 cent. BC. Two types were observed: apparently healthy and damaged by activity a weevil (Coleoptera, Bruchidae). At least two-fifths all finds have been infested most probably (Bruchus pisorum L.), one important pests ...

We present improved techniques for finding homologous regions in DNA and protein sequences. Our approach focuses on the core regions of a local pairwise alignment; we suggest new ways to characterize these regions that allow marked improvements in both specificity and sensitivity over existing techniques for sequence alignment. For any such characterization, which we call a vector seed, we give...