{"title":"Impact of irrigation intervals on the growth and yield of super basmati rice (Oryza sativa L.)","authors":"Jameel Ahmed Bohar","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120169","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136071978","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":"Small scale faming of Channa striata fish with different Feed Regimes in relation to physicochemical parameters","authors":"Shaista Jalbani","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120161","url":null,"abstract":"Murrel striped, Channa striata is a high-demanded food fish in different countries with significant therapeutic properties. customer preference and continual market demand claim its candidacy in small scale farming. Keeping in view current research work was design to elucidate impact of feed regimes taken from different sources and their effect on survival and growth of snakehead fish. To determine impact of different feed regimes five different feeds were selected to obtain best food for Channastriata reared in cemented cistern Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Sakrand Sindh, (SBBUVAS). It was observed from outcome of the study that the C.striata showed best growth when fed with chicken viscera applied in treatment I (129.10g), followed by chopped small fish and live small fish treatments III and IV (10.30 and 8.29 g) respectively. Feed V (pellet feed) determined significantly low growth and survival rate (70.44g). The mean initial weight of 5.0 ± 1.0g reached to the final weight of 125.50g in treatment I with 100% survival rate. It was concluded that chopped chicken viscera were found to be best food for rearing of C. striata fish. Reading of different water quality parameters as pH (power of hydrogen ion concentration) salinity, temperature, nitrate and Total dissolved solids were taken and found to be in the safe limits as recommended by (WHO 2012) and also good to support the survival, production and growth of aquatic biota especially for fish growth.","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":"9 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90555981","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":"First report of Geotrichum candidum causing post-harvest rot of Ber (Ziziphus mauritiana) & Guava (Psidium guajava) from Pakistan","authors":"Fakiha Zahid","doi":"10.19045/bspab.2023.120158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2023.120158","url":null,"abstract":"The current research involved the isolation of fungal species from spoiled fruit samples gathered from markets in Chichawatni. The method used for isolating filamentous fungi from infected parts of the fruits involved culturing on a Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA) medium following surface sterilization. The isolated fungal species were found belonging to the Geotrichum genus based on morpho-anatomical analysis. This study was aimed to isolate, characterize and identify the filamentous fungi associated with post-harvest spoilage of ber and guava being sold in Chichawatni. Findings of this work could lead to the development and recommendation of appropriate strategies for post-harvest disease control","PeriodicalId":20855,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72896811","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":"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":"243 1","pages":""},"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":"29 1","pages":""},"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":"2 1","pages":""},"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":"216 1","pages":""},"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":"4 1","pages":""},"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":"79 1","pages":""},"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":"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":"16 1","pages":""},"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}