T. Jan, B. Naqvi, A. Hazrat, R. Qadri, M. Nisar, N. Khan, M. Nawaz, Sidra Pervez
{"title":"Impact of Hormones on the Proliferation of Shoots and Initiation of Roots in Salvia santolinifolia (Boiss), A High Value Medicinal Herb","authors":"T. Jan, B. Naqvi, A. Hazrat, R. Qadri, M. Nisar, N. Khan, M. Nawaz, Sidra Pervez","doi":"10.52763/PJSIR.BIOL.SCI.63.1.2020.30.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52763/PJSIR.BIOL.SCI.63.1.2020.30.36","url":null,"abstract":"Salvia santolinifolia is a medicinal plant and an efficient in vitro conservation system is established. The influence of N6Benzylaminopurine (BAP), N6-(2-isopentyl)-adenine (2iP) and Kinetin at various concentrations were evaluated, single and in mixture with NAA (Naphthalene acetic acid) for the production of auxiliary shoots from nodal explants of S. santolinifolia. BAP at 3.0 mg/L in MS1 media produced maximum (11.66±3.38) number of shoots while elongated (5.37±1.45) shoots were produced in the MS2 medium in subcultures at 2.0 mg/L of 2iP. Least number of shoots were formed when auxin and cytokinin were used in combination. Length of culture, age was an important consideration for the initiation and development of roots. Rooting of shoot was attained with Indol-3-butyric acid (IBA) (3.0 mg/L) from shoots of 4th, 5th and 6th subculture while shoots taken from 1st, 2nd and 3rd subculture failed to form roots.","PeriodicalId":19784,"journal":{"name":"Pakistan journal of scientific and industrial research","volume":"1 1","pages":"30-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79324079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis of New Substituted Tetrazole and 4-Thiazolidinone from Schiff's Bases","authors":"A. Ahmed, N. G. Ahmed, A. Ahmad","doi":"10.52763/PJSIR.PHYS.SCI.63.1.2020.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52763/PJSIR.PHYS.SCI.63.1.2020.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"The present work involved the synthesis of compound (1) (1-amino-4-methyl-6-phenyl pyrimidine- 2-(1H)-thione). This compound reacts with different aromatic aldehyde using glacial acetic acid as catalytic on absolute ethanol to give a new series of Schiff's bases (2-7). New thiazolidine-4-one were prepared from reactions of Schiff's bases (2,3,4,7) with thioglycolic acid in absolute ethanol giving compounds (8-11). Finally the preparation of new tetrazole derivatives (12-15) by reaction of Schiff's bases (2,3,4,7) with sodium azide in THF. The structure of the synthesized compounds are confirmed by I.R., 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectra and some physical data.","PeriodicalId":19784,"journal":{"name":"Pakistan journal of scientific and industrial research","volume":"84 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81518982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Chelator EDTA on Phyto-Remediation of Cadmium, Chromium and Lead and their Effect on Growth of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)","authors":"J. Bakht, R. Ullah, M. Shafi","doi":"10.52763/PJSIR.BIOL.SCI.63.1.2020.22.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52763/PJSIR.BIOL.SCI.63.1.2020.22.29","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigates the phyto-accumulation capacity of two cultivars of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) for heavy metals. Analysis of the data recorded ten weeks after sowing indicated that heavy metal application had significantly (p<0.05) affected all the parameters under study. Interaction of EDTA x cultivar and EDTA x cultivar x heavy metal had significantly (p<0.05) affected root fresh weight, root dry weight and heavy metal accumulation. EDTA application had significant (p<0.05) effect on heavy metal accumulation when data was noted ten weeks after sowing. The data also revealed that maximum plant height, number of leaves/plant, shoot fresh weight and dry weight, root fresh and dry weight was noted in control pots (0 mg/kg heavy metal). The suggested that maximum shoot fresh weight shoot dry weight, root fresh weight and root dry weight was noted in pots kept at control with San Sun-33 when applied with 5 mM EDTA. Similarly, maximum heavy metal accumulation was recorded in treatment sown of HiSun-33 applied with 5 mM EDTA and 50 mM chromium. Maximum root fresh weight was noted in control pots treated with 5 mM EDTA and planted with San Sun-33. Similarly, heavy metal accumulation was more in HiSun-33 treated with 50 mg/kg chromium and 5 mM EDTA. In terms of accumulation of heavy metals, HiSun-33 demonstrated better accumulation of the tested heavy metals then SanSun-33, anyhow the growth of SanSun-33 was better than HiSun-33 due to lesser accumulation of heavy metals.","PeriodicalId":19784,"journal":{"name":"Pakistan journal of scientific and industrial research","volume":"18 1","pages":"22-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79728242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Sarwar Hossain, Bishwajit Das, Abul Khayer Morol
{"title":"Temperature Dependence of Volumetric and Viscometric Studies on SDS in Amino Acid Solutions","authors":"Muhammad Sarwar Hossain, Bishwajit Das, Abul Khayer Morol","doi":"10.52763/PJSIR.PHYS.SCI.63.1.2020.30.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52763/PJSIR.PHYS.SCI.63.1.2020.30.39","url":null,"abstract":"The temperature dependence studies on the binary and ternary system are very few. The densities of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS), L-arginine, 2-amino butyric acid in water and SDS mixed with L-arginine and 2-amino butyric acid solutions have been measured precisely at five equidistant temperatures ranging from 293.15K to 313.15K at an interval of 5K. The variety of different thermodynamics properties of SDS were observed in the low concentration region. The density of all the studied system was found to increase with the increase of molar concentration of the solution and decrease with the increase of temperature. SDS acts as structure breaker for both regions in aqueous L-arginine and 2-amino butyric acid solvent system at studied temperature.","PeriodicalId":19784,"journal":{"name":"Pakistan journal of scientific and industrial research","volume":"16 1","pages":"30-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82520488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Salman, Sardar Muhammad, M. Iqbal, M. Aijaz, M. Siddique, Asad Ali, S. Nawaz, A. W. Kamran
{"title":"Biosorption of Pb(II) and Cd(II) Ions from Aqueous Solution by Chemically Modified Syzygium cumini Leaves and its Equilibrium, Kinetic and Thermodynamic Studies","authors":"S. Salman, Sardar Muhammad, M. Iqbal, M. Aijaz, M. Siddique, Asad Ali, S. Nawaz, A. W. Kamran","doi":"10.52763/PJSIR.PHYS.SCI.63.1.2020.18.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52763/PJSIR.PHYS.SCI.63.1.2020.18.29","url":null,"abstract":"The removal of Pb (II) and Cd (II) ions from aqueous solution by a novel low-cost biosorbent; chemically modified Syzygium cumini leaves (CMSCL) was studied. The effects of biomass dosage, pH, concentration, temperature and contact time were investigated. Characterization of CMSCL was carried out by FT-IR spectroscopy, pore size, and surface area analyzer. The maximum biosorption capability of CMSCL for Pb (II) and Cd (II) ions was 104 and 50 mg/g at optimum conditions of pH 6 and 7, biomass dosage of 5 g/L, contact time of 120 and 90 min and temperature of 50 and 40 0C, respectively. The experimental data was analyzed using pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order kinetics models. The biosorption of Pb (II) and Cd (II) followed pseudo-second order model. Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin adsorption isotherm models were applied to explain the removal of heavy metal ions by CMSCL biosorbent. Langmuir isotherm model fitted better than other isotherm models. Thermodynamics parameters such as \u0000�H0, �G0 and �S0 showed that the biosorption of Pb (II) and Cd (II) ions onto CMSCL was spontaneous, exothermic and feasible under examined conditions. The occurrence of various functional groups and change in the absorption frequency after metal uptake indicates that complexation was the main mechanism involved in the process of biosorption. Based on the present investigation, it was proved that CMSCL is an effective, alternative and economical biosorbent for the removal of Pb (II) and Cd (II) ions. \u0000Keywords:","PeriodicalId":19784,"journal":{"name":"Pakistan journal of scientific and industrial research","volume":"48 1","pages":"18-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91258684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Source of Organic Matter and Paleo-Environmental Reconstruction 13 Using 8 C Isotope from Mid-Siwalik Sediments of a Late Miocene Himalayan Foreland Basin, Pakistan","authors":"Abbas R. Ali, Pan Jiayong, Y. Jie, Ahmad Nabi","doi":"10.52763/PJSIR.PHYS.SCI.63.1.2020.55.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52763/PJSIR.PHYS.SCI.63.1.2020.55.64","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the stable carbon isotope13 (8 C) and characterization of sources of organic matter from core samples of sandstones of mid-Siwalik group Dhok Pathan Formation from Surghar- Shingar Range of NW Himalayan foreland Fold-and-Thrust-Belt. These sediments have recorded valuable information regarding the palaeo-vegetation type and paleo-environment/depositional environments. The analytical results of stable carbon isotope range from -24.50 to -28.43% with an average value of -26.56%. These values correspond to C3 vegetation of cool growing season and support the hypothesis of the dominance of C3 biomass in the ecosystem during the late-Miocene in this area. The phytoclasts are characterized as huminite/vitrinite, derived from terrestrial plants and referred to as type-III kerogen. The fungal attack, scaring and pitting of bacterial activity, biochemical degradation, replacement/diagenetic development of pyrite suggest that these sandstones of Dhok Pathan Formation were deposited under dyoxic conditions and thus these sandstones are primary reduced sandstones.","PeriodicalId":19784,"journal":{"name":"Pakistan journal of scientific and industrial research","volume":"1993 1","pages":"55-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90425127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review A Review of Recent Progress in Efficiency-Power Correlations of Silicon Hetero-Junction Solar Cells","authors":"T. Iqbal, A. Azam, Aqsa Tehseen, Almas Bashir","doi":"10.52763/pjsir.phys.sci.62.3.2019.202.214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52763/pjsir.phys.sci.62.3.2019.202.214","url":null,"abstract":"Solar technology is widely used to generate the electricity. It is fundamental p-n junction that supplies the emf whenever sunlight falls on it. A lot of efforts have been incremented by inserting the impurity level in the semiconductor band gap to enhance the efficiency of the solar cells. Copper zinc tin sulphide (Cu2ZnSnS4) devices are the highly stable and efficient part for the most fundamental of many solar cells. Cadmium (Cd) doping is carried out to enhance the efficiency of CZTS. Cadmium sulphide (CdS) consists of band gap that is 2.4 eV. Ternary organic solar cells attract the researchers interest level due to the best absorbing capacity that is much easier to handle but the exclusive difficulty in dealing with its morphology. Thin film solar cells have greater coefficient of absorption because of its high functioning and have band gap value in the range between 1.5 and 1.0 eV. Solar cells consists of chalcopyrite on a polyimide film that demonstrates the largest cell efficiency approximately 18.7%.","PeriodicalId":19784,"journal":{"name":"Pakistan journal of scientific and industrial research","volume":"6 1","pages":"202-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79215991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of Automotive Industry in Global Warming","authors":"S. Abro, A. Chandio, I. A. Channa, A. Alaboodi","doi":"10.52763/pjsir.phys.sci.62.3.2019.197.201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52763/pjsir.phys.sci.62.3.2019.197.201","url":null,"abstract":"Global warming and air pollution by human made gases such as CO2, is mainly produced by automotive industry that results in great risk for human health. The aim of this study is to reduce the above problem by using the high strength materials with low density in the manufacturing of automotive vehicles. An approach applied here is to enhance the strength by reducing the grain size, lowering the density and increasing elongation. Four steel samples with different chemical compositions were selected. Samples were heat treated from 850 °C to 1250 °C and cooled in water. Grain size distribution was calculated using matrox inspector software and result was plotted using origin. It was found that 850 °C has lowest and 1250 °C has highest grain sizes. Strength of steel can be increased not only by adding the alloying elements but also by controlling grain size. Light weight material consumes lower fuel and emits lower CO2, thus it minimizes the global warming and air pollution.","PeriodicalId":19784,"journal":{"name":"Pakistan journal of scientific and industrial research","volume":"19 1","pages":"197-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90805766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review The Importance of Seawater Intake and its Treatment Techniques for RO Desalination Plant","authors":"Ahmad Hussain, M. Mahrukh, I. Ahmed","doi":"10.52763/pjsir.phys.sci.62.3.2019.215.222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52763/pjsir.phys.sci.62.3.2019.215.222","url":null,"abstract":"Seawater intake and its treatments are one of the main upstream processes of every seawater desalination plant (RO, ED, MSF, MED). However, the process has turned out to be of utmost importance for reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant. It is to be sure that sufficient and steady flow and quality of water is available to the RO desalination plant. Prior to RO feed water, the seawater intake pre-treatment process has to be tailored and the quality of seawater intake to be treated either subsurface intake or open surface intakes, particularly when treating open surface intakes seawater (OSIS) with exceedingly unpredictable quality. According to the well-established membrane manufacturer and supplier, the RO membrane warranty and guarantee are depended on seawater intake quality and its pre-treatment. Thus, the current state-of-the-art RO membranes life and performance success for desalination processing depend upon OSIS pre-treatment processing techniques. This article is emphasizing an overview on recent OSIS and its pre-treatment techniques for RO desalination plant.","PeriodicalId":19784,"journal":{"name":"Pakistan journal of scientific and industrial research","volume":"118 1","pages":"215-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88076249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Mubeen, N. Sarwar, Muhammad Waseem Akhtar, M. Akhtar, A. A. Rahi, S. Munir, H. M. Rafique
{"title":"Impact of Pesticide Quality Control Programme in Southern Punjab, Pakistan","authors":"K. Mubeen, N. Sarwar, Muhammad Waseem Akhtar, M. Akhtar, A. A. Rahi, S. Munir, H. M. Rafique","doi":"10.52763/PJSIR.BIOL.SCI.61.1.2018.52.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52763/PJSIR.BIOL.SCI.61.1.2018.52.55","url":null,"abstract":"This study was taken to evaluate pesticide quality and their impact on crop. Total 14336 number of pesticide samples were received for quality evaluation from 2006 to 2012. The data was analysed statistically at 5% level of significance and treatment means were worked out. The results revealed that out of 14336 analysed samples, 13541 (94.5%) were declared fit for crop use whereas the remaining 795 (5.5%) were found to be unfit. The trend in generic and branded unfit samples between the years 2006 to 2012 revealed that the agencies marketing branded pesticides had better quality than generic ones.","PeriodicalId":19784,"journal":{"name":"Pakistan journal of scientific and industrial research","volume":"224 1","pages":"52-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77449966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}