Gladiolus (Gladiolus grandiflorus L.), a popular and economically profitable bulbous cut flower, has high demand in both Pakistan domestic and international markets on account of its attractive spikes, florets of huge forms, dazzling colors, varying sizes, and long vase life. However, its quality production is badly affected by non-uniform sprouting, poor crop stand, and old cultivars. To overc...

A field experiment was executed under sub-tropical conditions during the period from April 2020 to March 2021 observe effects of bulb sizes on flower and yield tuberose cv. single. The consisted three namely, a small-sized (1.0-1.5 cm in diameter); medium-sized (1.6-2.5 diameter) large sized (2.6-3.0 diameter). Results disclosed that plant height, number leaves plant-1, leaf length breadth, lat...

Effects of nectar-producing plants (NPP) on the longevity, fecundity, oviposition and nectar-collecting behaviour of Diadegma insulare were studied. Longevity and fecundity of D. insulare were varied with morphological characters of NPP’s flowers. Brassica kaber (D.C) Wheeler, Barbarea vulgaris R. Br. and Daucus carota L. supplied nectar and resulted in D. insulare longevity and fecundity equal...

Investigation was done to find out the effect of different polyamines viz., spermine and spermidine (5, 10, 20 mg/l) biostimulants 2 % Novel (banana pseudostem sap) 2% cow urine as foliar spray on growth parameters rose var. Top Secret.
 Plant height, number branches leaves were found be significantly higher with biostimulants. Maximum plant height in plants treated mg/l while maximum sper...

In vitro flowering and fruiting were induced in plants regenerated from calli of leaf explants of Lycopersicon esculentum var. Pant 11. MS medium supplemented with 2 mg/l BAP displayed the best response followed by MS with 2 mg/l BAP, 1 mg/ l ABA and 0.5 mg/l IAA. Flower buds were developed both directly from callus and regenerated plantlets from leaf explants under 16 h (39.3 μmol m-2s-1) phot...

Invasive species are a threat to every ecosystem. There is a strong incentive to predict which species will become invasive before they become too widespread and unmanageable. Different approaches have been advocated to assess invasive species potential. These include examining plant functional traits, quantifying competitive ability and phylogenetic comparison. In this study, we conducted expe...

In the present paper, we report on a simple and new approach for the synthesis of hierarchical flower-like zinc oxide superstructures ZnO (FL) in the presence of the TEMPO-oxidized cellulose gel (TOCgel) through a room temperature sol-gel process in aqueous medium. Resulting composite films based on TOCgel and ZnO were investigated by several techniques including scanning electron microscopy (S...