Crop biofortification
Created on Saturday, 31 March 2012
Written by Fahim Nawaz
A GROWTH rate of 1.2 per cent was estimated in the agriculture sector of the country during 2010-11 with a significant increase in staple food crops like wheat, maize and sugarcane. These crops are grown to feed the country’s ever increasing population with little awareness about the hidden malnutrition. No real effort has been made to enrich crops with nutritional value required for improving huma
Maize: cereal with a variety of uses
Created on Monday, 28 November 2011
Written by Khawar Jabran, Dr Zahid Ata & Dr Muhammad Farooq
MAIZE ranks third most grown crop in the world with an area of more than 118 million hectares with an annual production of about 600 million metric tones. In Pakistan, maize is the fourth largest grown crop after wheat, cotton and rice. The area under maize here is over one million hectare and production 3.5 million metric tonnes. MAIZE ranks third most grown crop in the world with an area o
Applications To 2013 Türkiye Scholarships For Graduate Programs Are Open
Created on Saturday, 16 March 2013
Written by Mohsin Cheema
(Deadline for Applications: March 31, 2013)
A great scholarship opportunity for those students who wish to enroll in postgraduate or doctoral programs in Turkey! We invite the successful students from all around the world for the post graduate and doctoral programs at the top universities in Türkiye with attractive scholarship opportunities.You can enroll post-graduate or doctorate studies aIPM strategies for Burewala Strain of Cotton Virus (BSCV)
Created on Friday, 04 May 2012
Written by Muhammad Amjad Ali
Leaf curl disease is caused by a Gemini group of viruses and is transmitted by whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Genn.). In Pakistan, cotton leaf curl virus (CLCuV) was first observed on stray plants in 1967 but appeared at epidemic level for the first time in 1989 over a limited area. CLCuV, as a disease, was overlooked until 1992 when it devastated cotton production in the Punjab (Pakistan). In 1993-94,
Environmental hazards of pesticides
Created on Sunday, 29 January 2012
Written by M. Saleem & Dr M. Arshad
ABOUT 25 million agricultural workers in developing countries suffer from pesticide poisoning each year that includes a significant number of women, says the World Health Organization (WHO). Most of the applied pesticides in these countries have been classified by the WHO as class one pesticides like monocrotophos, methamidophos, endosulfan and carbufurun. These play havoc with biodiversity, envir
Viral diseases of economic crops
Created on Saturday, 19 November 2011
Written by M. Mithal Jiskani
The viruses are parasitic in nature and cause the most infectious group of diseases, of all forms of livings (including human being, animals and plants). The viruses are very small to that of all others and can not be seen with necked eye, nor with the help of commonly used microscopes, hence are regarded as sub microscopic, nucleo protein articles, multiply inside living cells. Viruses cause dis
Leaf Spot/Blight of Rice
Created on Monday, 28 February 2011
It is a common disease in the rice growing countries of South Eastern Asia and also in Japan. It cause losses at three distinct phases. Firstly, poor germination of infected seeds. Secondly, leaf infection during seedling stage. Thirdly, shriveling and poor setting of seeds due to general weakening of the plants. The fungus attacks all parts of the plant in all stages of development. In the seedl
Tobacco Mosaic
Created on Saturday, 26 February 2011
Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is a positive-sense single stranded RNA virus that infects plants, especially tobacco and other members of the family Solanaceae. The infection causes characteristic patterns (mottling and discoloration) on the leaves (hence the name). TMV was the first virus to be discovered. Although it was known from the late 19th century that ... Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is a
Bacterial Blight of Rice
Created on Sunday, 16 January 2011
Symptoms:The disease may induce either wilting of leaf blight. Wilting commonly appears sporadically in the field causing serious damage, and is known as “Kresek”. This is due to early systemic infection of from infected seeds and the bacterium brought in contact with the geminating seedlings. It commonly occurs within 3-4 weeks after planting resulting in either the death of whole the plants of wil
Plants may be able to 'hear' others
Created on Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Written by Michael Marshall
THEY can "smell" chemicals and respond to light, but can plants hear sounds? It seems chilli seeds can sense neighbouring plants even if those neighbours are sealed in a box, suggesting plants have a hitherto-unrecognised sense. Plants are known to have many of the senses we do: they can sense changes in light level, "smell" chemicals in the air and "taste" them in the soil (New Scientist, 26 Sept
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