Noureen Basheer

Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology | FUUAST · Botany

Increasing population and urbanization results in greater production of wastewaters through industrial, commercial, domestic or agricultural activities. Discharges of these resources contain several elements including nutrients and heavy metals. Therefore, utilization of wastewater for crop irrigation alters the soil property of agricultural land b...

A wide variety of medicinal plants have natural compounds that are toxic to pathogenic fungi and cause significant agricultural losses over decades. In the present study, aqueous, chloroform, petroleum ether and methanol leave extracts of five plants, Cassia fistula, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Fagonia indica, Ocimum basilicum and Senna alata were in...

Plants are able to produce various chemical substances in order to protect their body from several abiotic and biotic stresses. These phyto-chemicals are secondary metabolites that can inhibit pathogenic growth by terminating their cellular body. In present studies, it is evaluated that plant products like aerial part of Alfalfa, Rice husk and whea...

Plant health is dependent on the quality of soil. Therefore, soil is the most important aspect for agriculture. Use of agricultural waste as an organic amendment is one of those implements that naturally enhance the fertility of soil. In present research, different organic materials were used as soil amendment to check their effects on plant growth...

Abstarct Hypersensitive response (HR) is a defensive mechanism system in the plant, which prevents the spread of pathogens. It characterized in form of cells death in the surrounding and produce a distinctive feature of resistance among various types of incompatible interactions between plant and pathogen. Rice is of one the most important food an...