Agroforestry remained instrumental in ensuring food security, ameliorate environment and support livelihood across the globe particularly the developing countries. Present research made use of Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to understand performance of agroforestry in Southern...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2023/v9i4261
Pakistan is the among the most populated countries of the world with predominantly arid climate facing different challenges like food insecurity, energy crises, poor health system, poverty, small forest area cover, and significant effects of global warming and climate change. How...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2023/v9i4254
Woodworkers purchase wood from farmlands as well as from the timber markets, transport them and later convert them into usable products keeping in mind their profitability and customer relationship. Wood with problems not only devoid woodworkers with profit, in turn, affect custo...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2022/v8i4184
Flood-proximate communities are the most affected from the destructions caused by floods occurring almost every year in Pakistan. The people in these areas, due to frequent natural calamities, usually have poor economic conditions. These communities mainly rely on conventional in...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2022/v8i4180
Quality assessment regarding purchase of wood and wood-based products is inevitable to protect consumers for incurring losses. The present research was focused to enable consumer to assess quality woods. Questionnaire containing qualitative and quantitative information were prepa...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2022/v8i4176
Trees along roadside play an important role in climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration. Vehicular pollution is not only responsible for environmental degradation but also cause various health issues to inhabitants resides in the vicinity of such roads. Present stu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2022/v8i4174
Agroforestry remained a profitable venture across the globe if managed well spatially and temporarily. Farmlands are viable option to practice agroforestry in Pakistan for sustaining farmers’ livelihoods as well as to provide products and services for ever increasing population....
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2021/v8i430182
Muhammad Zubair, Rana Mohsin Ijaz, Syed Bilal Hussain, Akash Jamil & Imran Khan·Asian Plant Research Journal·2021
The study assessed the utilization, marketing and transportation of Non WoodForest Products (NWFPs) in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK)with the view to improving ivelihoods of local inhabitants. Data collection were made in AJK districts of Neelam and Bagh. The respondents that wer...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2021/v8i330179
Himalayan region has diversity of Non-Timber Forest Products and is considered as biodiversity hotspot. Current research is baseline study providing information on extraction and processing of Non-Timber Forest Products especially medicinal plants in North Eastern Pakistan of Aza...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2020/v6i430117
In the era when climate change is causing havoc on the health, economics, infrastructure and environment of the mankind, alternatives to fossil fuel energies being promoted. Renewable energy resources are more sustainable as compared to fossil fuels and have the potency to replac...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2020/v6i330169
Asad Nadeem Pasha, Umar Imtiaz, Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Hassan Arif, Rao Saad Rehman, Sabeen Muntaha, Ahsan Amin & Aqib Riaz·South Asian Journal of Parasitology·2023
Gene transfer across species is often linked to bacteria, which have developed a lot of approaches to promote horizontal DNA exchange. But whole-genome sequencing has shown that fungal species exchange DNA as well, resulting in interwoven lineages, unclear species boundaries, or...
Cotton is a major fibrous cash crop cultivated in over 80 countries because the global textile industry depends on it. In Pakistan, the primary factor reducing cotton production is cotton leaf curl disease caused by a begomovirus, a cotton leaf curl virus vectored through the whi...
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutism L.) is a primary source of natural fiber, fuel, wood, and oil worldwide and an essential raw material source for the textile industry. Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) is one of the major pests distributed worldwide and has broad genetic diversity. In this re...
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Research Article10.9734/ajbgmb/2022/v12i230289
Cotton is considered a cash crop in the agriculture sector, and whitefly infestation is one of the cotton crop's significant biotic stresses. This study aimed to identify whitefly Bemisia tabaci resistant cotton varieties that can be incorporated into a cotton breeding program to...
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Research Article10.9734/ajbgmb/2022/v12i230287
A comparison was made of the physiological and morphological differences between Inqlab-91 (hexaploid) and Langdon (tetralpoid) wheat genotypes in response to high temperature stress applied at third leaf stage of growth. Electrolytes leakage technique was used to detect differen...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i530513
Objective: To assess the knowledge of first professional medical students of Bolan University of Medical and Health Sciences Quetta about Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Methodology: This cross sectional descriptive study was carried out on first professional MBBS students of Bolan Med...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2019/v16i230141
Aims: The aim of this paper is to determine the impact of infrastructure, finance and training on the performance of Pakistani SMEs, using micro level data. Study Design: Quantitative descriptive Place and Duration of Study: World Bank Enterprise survey of 1247 Pakistani manufact...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2024/v21i4803
Syed Bilal Hussain, Aqsa Manzoor, Muhammad Shoaib, Muhammad Zubair & Matoor Mohsin Gilani·Asian Plant Research Journal·2023
In today's globe, when the population is growing every day, chickpeas are a crucial crop from an economic and nutritional standpoint. The regulation of cytokinin concentrations by the alteration of cytokinin metabolic genes offers a potential strategy for enhancing agricultural y...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2023/v11i6235
Nanotechnology is a well-advanced area and several types of nanoparticles have been synthesized. Different types of nanoparticles have been synthesized so far using different techniques. It is most practical to produce nanoparticles from plant extracts for use in medicine and oth...
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Research Article10.9734/ajbgmb/2023/v15i3338
Whitefly is a major factor in reducing cotton yield worldwide more specifically in Asian Countries So to deal with this whitefly there is a need to separate genetically diverse varieties that can combat it due to its unique genetic source. In this study, genetic diversity analysi...
Cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) is a dangerous viral disease that affects the productivity of cotton crops. Since early detection, this disease has spread worldwide and has caused serious damage to the production of cotton around the world particularly in Pakistan. In this study...
Skin conditions are among the most common health problems that affect people. Modern, allopathic, and natural medicine can all help to promote healthy skin. Human skin problems can be successfully treated using medicinal herbs because they contain a wide variety of bioactive mol...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2022/v8i4185
Nanotechnology has received tremendous attention because its applications have expanded in a variety of fields. The biological route for the synthesis of nanoparticles become more demanding as it is eco-friendly, low cost, and not time taking procedure. In this research, Aspergil...
The aim of this study was to identify the suprior cotton genotypes with improved physiological characteristics under drought conditions. On the bais of root-shoot charcteristics, five genoypes of G. hirsutum were identified as drought tolerant and three genotypes screened out as...
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Research Article10.9734/ajbgmb/2021/v9i430224
Plant viruses have become a major issue to the crop production around the world. These viruses have become an unavoidable limiting factor by causing rigorous crop deficit for those major crops which are economically important. Among these viruses, begomoviruses belonging to famil...
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Research Article10.9734/ajbgmb/2021/v9i430223
The green synthesis of nanoparticles has attracted the attention of scientific communities due to their simple, economical, and environment-friendly properties. This study focuses on the biological synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs) using an aqueous extract of Moringa...
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Research Article10.9734/ajbgmb/2021/v9i330220
A 5×5 direct-crosses of Chickpea geneotypes (CM-98, Noor-91, Brittle-98, Punjab-2000 and Karak-1) were undertaken at Research area of the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, FAS&T, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. Then Model-I and Model-II of Griffing a...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2020/v5i430113
Copper nanoparticles (CuNPs) have gained a lot of interest due to their tendency to combat various bacterial strains, making them potential candidates against antibiotic resistant bacteria. Green synthesis of CuNPs eradicates the potential drawbacks of other traditional methods s...
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Research Article10.9734/ajbgmb/2023/v15i3340
Nanotechnology is a well advanced area and different types of nanoparticles are now produced. The most revolutionary topic of the twenty-first century is nanotechnology. Recently, metallic nanoparticles (NPs) have gained a lot of attention. In this study a straightforward, safe,...
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Research Article10.9734/ajbgmb/2023/v15i2332
Syed Bilal Hussain, Hamna Rafi, Asad Aslam, Sadaf Noor & Muhammad Zubair·Asian Journal of Biology·2023
The study was aimed to isolate and identify the methicillin-resistant strains and then detect the genetic variants and investigate S. aureus isolates that were resistant to methicillin found in the community of Southern Punjab. Collecting the isolates of S. aureus from the Southe...
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Research Article10.9734/ajob/2023/v19i2365
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) are responsible for genetic mutations. We studied genetic molecular variations and found an association of oral cancer with SNP of Adenylate Cyclase 2 (ADCY2) rs252546 and complement C7 (C7) rs1450656 genes in people of Southern Punjab, Pakis...
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Research Article10.9734/ajbgmb/2021/v9i430225
Background: Adolescent obesity is a worldwide threatening health challenge. Current study was designed to assess the obesity and overweight occurrence in adolescent age groups of 12-18 years pertaining to high and low income groups of the city of Quetta Pakistan. Methods and Resu...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i530296