{"title":"Impact of nutrient enriched humic substances on growth of maize and soil health","authors":"M. Z. Khan","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91430832","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":"Identifying the selection criteria for evolving high-yielding rapeseed genotypes (Brassica napus L.) for water stress conditions","authors":"S. Rao","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120151","url":null,"abstract":"Water scarcity is one of the main constraints for the cultivation of many field crops, including rapeseed. Water-stress resistant in rapeseed cultivars is an efficient and productive approach to face the challenge of water shortage. Therefore, the current study regarding correlation analysis was carried out under water stress in order to identify the yield enhancing characters, which are evolving in high yielding rapeseed genotypes under water stress conditions. The experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with factorial arrangements having twenty rapeseed genotypes at Botanical Garden, Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam during the growing season of 2019-20. For the estimation of correlation, two treatments were used, such as, well-watered (WW) with four normal irrigations at several growth stages and water stress (WS) with only two irrigations, imposing at silique formation stage. The values of mean squares of genotypes, treatments and genotype × treatment interactions were differed significantly ( P ≤0.05) for many studied traits, signifying that breeding materials used in the present research has worth to be used in future rapeseed improvement programs. Most of the investigated characters exhibited positive and significant ( P ≤0.05) correlations with seed yield plant -1 under well-watered and water stress conditions, such as, plant height (WW= 0.60 ** ; WS= 0.61 ** ), branches plant -1 (WW= 0.51 ** ; WS= 0.46 ** ), silique plant -1 (WW= 0.49 ** ; WS= 0.33 ** ), seeds silique -1 (WW= 0.74 ** ; WS= 0.71 ** ), silique length (WW= 0.86 ** ; WS= 0.88 ** ), seed yield silique -1 (WW= 0.77 ** ; WS= 0.80 ** ), seed index (WW= 0.85 ** ; WS= 0.86 ** ), relative water content (WW= 0.60 ** ; WS= 0.61 ** ), chlorophyll (WW= 0.77 ** ; WS= 0.81 ** ) and oil content (WW= 0.51 ** ; WS= 0.55 ** ). Besides that, scientists and farmers can be used such characteristics as selection criteria to develop high-yielding rapeseed varieties water stress tolerant condition.","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81690734","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":"Phenotypic and molecular confirmation of maize (Zea mays L.) genotypes for drought tolerance at seedling stage","authors":"Abdul Rehman","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120156","url":null,"abstract":"Abiotic stresses such as drought is adversely affecting the crop yields as well as maize productivity. The core idea of this study was to screen and identify maize genotypes for drought tolerance through morphological and molecular characterization for Balochistan region. In-vitro experiment was carried out using four maize genotypes namely Azam, Jalal, Edhi and Pahari that were investigated for drought stress tolerance at seedling stage. Completely randomized design (CRD) was used for current study. Maize seedlings were grown in growth chamber and after two-weeks of drought stress, samples were collected at different time periods. The morphological data showed that the root architecture of Jalal was significantly different from the remaining studied genotypes. These results were further strengthened and supported by the molecular analysis. For wet lab experiment, the DNA was extracted by Plant Mini Kit method and the presence/absence of drought tolerant gene was confirmed through the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). The specifically designed primers for candidate orthologues were used to obtain the targeted PCR products. Furthermore, the results of PCR were confirmed through gel electrophoresis. The results of inter simple sequence repeats (ISSR) markers showed that only ISSR-838 was attached on Jalal while remaining genotypes did not showed any amplification of the products, that mean the Jalal genotype is more diverse from the other genotypes for drought stress tolerance. The obtained results of this study will be further utilized for the development of drought resistant maize variety and also used in other future breeding programs of Balochistan.","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88886732","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":"Influence of different zinc sulfate levels on yield and yield components of maize cultivars (Zea mays L.) in the agro-climatic condition of district Bajaur","authors":"A. Ullah","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74712617","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":"Comparative efficacy of different botanicals for controlling white stem borer, Scirpophaga innotata (Walker) under field conditions","authors":"Mohammad Yousif Rahimoon","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86608486","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 different irrigation water regimes on water productivity of wheat crop","authors":"Shakil Ahmed","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77428028","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":"Suitability of Atmospheric Water Harvesting (AWH) techniques for the climatic conditions of Pakistan: A case study","authors":"Muhammad Aurangzaib","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78064500","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":"Comparative assessment of milk production and composition of Lassi and Makrani camel breeds under conventional management system in Lasbela region of Baluchistan","authors":"Farhat Habib","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77789683","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":"Protective antioxidant role of Dodoneae viscosa against oxidative stress in liver damage","authors":"Anam Urooj","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89300298","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":"Phenotypic diversity of Aseel Chicken in District Tando Allahyar, Sindh, Pakistan","authors":"R. Kaleri","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120155","url":null,"abstract":"Aseel chicken is very famous in Sindh for their fighting behavior, delicious meat quality with adaptability of tropical and subtropical climatic conditions and as attractive household bird . Present study was conducted on Aseel chicken raised in three different taluka Jhando Mari, Chambar and Tando Allahyar city of district Tando Allahyar, Sindh, Pakistan with 60 male and 40 female Aseel birds. The results of the study based on phenotypic diversity showed that maximum feather color and feather pattern was observed on neck and breast (34%) grey black and Dark brown (49%), plain (34%) and (55%) penciled type. The result for wing bow and wing bar feather color and pattern percentage was observed maximum orange/pale brown (34%) and (27%), plain (34%) and (45%) irregular pattern was recorded. The results for wing bay saddle feather color percentage of Aseel chicken was maximum found greenish black (26%) and (36%) of pale organe/pale brown (62%) and (45%) plain type pattern. The result for tail feather color percentage of Aseel chicken revealed that maximum color of feather was observed greenish black (42%) and (5%) of plain type pattern was recorded.","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91480711","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}