Anaytullah Siddique

Background: Indian mustard, a key oilseed crop in India, is valued for its diverse culinary and health benefits. It faces significant challenges due to a wide range of abiotic stress wherein climate-induced water stress is one of them, which negatively impacts plant population, morpho-physiological growth and biochemical reactions. Thus not only th...

The depleting of water resources and poor nutrient availability during crop growth pose significant stress, adversely affecting the vegetative and reproductive growth of mustard crops. This stress extends its negative impact to the reproductive stage and on oil content. Consequently, morpho-physiological traits were targeted for evaluation under va...

Mung bean, botanically referred to as Vigna radiata is valued for its superb quality of nutrition, which includes a large amount of protein, minerals, and vitamins, making it a staple worldwide. Morpho-phenological traits are critical indicators of plant growth and development, which influence the overall yield and quality of the mung bean; thus, o...

Background: Black gram (Vigna mungo L.), a vital legume crop, frequently encounters growth challenges due to environmental stress, leading to reduced yield and productivity. This study aimed to determine the impact of putrescine and cadaverine on the morpho-physiological growth of the black gram variety MASH 1008. Methods: The present piece of work...

Background: Green gram (Vigna radiata (L.) is a significant pulse crop in India, renowned for its protein content and nitrogen-fixing ability. This research, which explores the impact of rhizobium, putrescine and calcium chloride on green gram’s biochemical properties, yield and yield attributes, provides valuable insights for the agricultural comm...

The growing population, diminishing resources, and traditional breeding techniques will not satisfy the needs of a future generation. This is only accessible through agricultural biotechnology. Agriculture biotechnology is a more recent method of crop improvement that uses better methods and tools such as genetic engineering, tissue culture, use of...

The global population's exponential growth poses a challenge, demanding innovative solutions for sustainable crop yield and nutritional enhancement. Nano-omics, rooted in nanotechnology, revolutionizes agriculture. Nanoparticles (NPs) penetrate plant tissues for precise nutrient delivery, catalyzing peroxidase and catalase synthesis. This scavenges...

Indian mustard ( Brassica juncea L.) is an important oilseed crop cultivated in various regions of the world, particularly in India. However, its productivity faces limitations due to various abiotic factors, notably variable soil moisture. This study aimed to explore the influence of humic acid and sulphur application on Indian mustard growth and...

Cadmium is one of the most carcinogenic and hazardous heavy metals on the earth for causes many serious diseases and disorders in the plant body. The presence of Cd in the soil is equally harmful to the production of rice crops and human beings. A pot experiment was conducted to analyze the consequences of cadmium-induced stress on the antioxidativ...

A field-based experiment was conducted to know the relevance of potassium solubilizing bacteria (KSB), and Osmo-priming mediated morphological changes and yielded recovery in green gram (Vigna radiata L.) under water-limiting conditions. Hence, the experiment was carried out at the research farm of Lovely Professional University. The characters lik...

Cultivation of quality potatoes ensures a good earning compared to low quality, especially in terms of tuber weight and starch content. Therefore, an experiment was laid out to find out the impact of an organic amendment based on the combinations of biochar, vermicompost, poultry manure, and bone meal for the enrichment of soil health and quality o...

Drought is a well-known issue in plants and it occurs when plants do not receive enough water to meet their requirements. Hence it alters the metabolic process of the plant, consequently reducing the yield. To overcome the loss of yield under prevailing situations, triggering of the antioxidative defense system is required which can mitigate the im...

Rhizobium is a bacterial culture that enhances the speed of biological nitrogen fixation in association with root nodules in pulse crops while boron act as a catalyst for cell division hence the size of nodules and sugar translocation in the plant. An experiment was conducted by considering rhizobium as a seed inoculant and boron as a soil applican...

Background: Cadmium is a noxious heavy metal that is commonly found in the soil while its concentration is increasing in soil because of industrialization at the global level. It does not only reduce the yield of crops but also adulterates food and underground drinkable water. The availability of Cd beyond the threshold level may cause many problem...

Crop residue is a remaining part of the plant after separating the economic part of the plant which becomes useless if farmers are unable to manage it properly. The rice-wheat cropping system is one of the most popular cropping systems in Asian countries especially in India, Bangladesh, China and Pakistan so that a huge amount of waste material...

An experiment was planned and executed over the field to evaluate the co-ordinal impact of humic acid with foliar applications of Zn and Boron on morphological changesand chlorophyll content in black gram (Vigna mungo L.). Out of both the concentrations of humic acid, (HA 1 and HA 2), HA 2 was recorded superiorfor the entire set of parameters as co...

Heavy metals (HMs) Hg > Cd> Pb> As> Ag> Ni > Co > Cu > Zn is the most popular environmental pollutants known since a long time ago as a major environmental threat; Cd is one of them. It has around 25-30 years of persistence in the environment, therefore, poses a hazardous impact on entire living things on the planet including plants, animals and hu...

Studies were planned to assess the detrimental effect of Cd induced stress on morphological growth and yield attributes of rice plant. Therefore, this experiment was conducted during 2019 at Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. The focusable part of the study were based upon the morphological and yield attributing characters like plant he...

A lab trial was conducted to assess the effect of seed invigoration treatment with Mg (NO3)2 salts over short term moisture induced by PEG-6000 on percent inhibition of germination, length, fresh and dry weight of shoot and root and increase and decrease of same over the range of moisture stress as compare to control. Elevated levels of PEG-6000 we...

Ameliorative Effect of Seed Priming on Germination, Vigour Index and Tolerance Index against Short Term Moisture Stress in Maize (Zea mays L.)

An experiment was carried out to appraise the effect of seed priming treatment with Mg(NO 3) 2 against various levels of externally imposed moisture stress by polyethylene glycol-6000 on phytotoxicity in shoot and root and chlorophyll content in maize plant under laboratory conditions. The phytotoxicity of shoot and root was increased as the elevat...

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An experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of seed priming with magnesium nitrate salt against the moisture stress condition induced by Polyethylene glycol-6000 on seed germination, vigour index and tolerance index in root and shoot. Polyethylene glycol-6000 was used to create short term moisture stress under laboratory conditions while t...

A lab trial was conducted to assess the effect of seed invigoration treatment with Mg (NO3) 2 salts over short term moisture induced by PEG-6000 on percent inhibition of germination, length, fresh and dry weight of shoot and root and increase and decrease of same over the range of moisture stress as compare to control. Elevated levels of PEG-6000 w...

The proper germination of a seed in field is a crucial phenomenon because during this period seed has to face various kinds of stresses that may be biotic or abiotic. To get the better performance of seeds in respect to seed germination and healthy seedling establishment of many crops is subjected to various kinds of pre-treatments of seed with wat...

Cadmium (Cd2+) is a highly toxic biologically non-essential heavy metal which adversely affects the growth, development and yield of plants. Therefore, the study was undertaken to assess the effects of different concentrations of CdCl2 (25, 50, 75 and 100 ppm) on physiological and biochemical changes occur during initial growth phases. The accumula...

In this research work, we were testing the effect of Nitrate hardening treatment on seed germination and related biochemical changes under low temperature

A lab experiment was carried out to asses the effect of PEG-6000 induced short term moisture stress on drought tolerance of ten rice genotypes, on the basis of change in some important physico-chemical parameters like proline content, RWC and NR activity in germinating seedlings. Proline contents of seedlings increased with increasing stress; at hi...

Fungal organisms are responsible agent for the weakening and degradation of natural material, diseases in plants, creatures, and individuals. Although the type of mould and degree of infestation will depend upon the particular conditions and available nutrients. Despite the fact that the kind of shape and level of pervasion will rely on the specifi...

Adverse environmental conditions impose stress in the plant, like heat, cold, salinity, heavy metal, nutrient, droughtstress; play a very prominent role to limit the plant growth and development. During the exposure of these wide ranges of stresses, plant itself changing or developing at morphological, biochemical or molecular level. During the mor...

Cadmium (Cd2+) is a highly toxic biologically non-essential heavy metal which adversely affects the growth, development and yield of plants. Therefore, the study was undertaken to assess the effects of different concentrations of CdCl2 (25, 50, 75 and 100 ppm) on physiological and biochemical changes occur during initial growth phases. The accumula...

Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) accumulates high concentration of sucrose along with the juice in their stem. Hence, the opportunity of extensive research is in the physiology, biochemistry and molecular aspect of sucrose accumulation. Instead of this, the relationship between leaf photosynthetic activity and sucrose accumulation in the culm is...

Fungal organisms are responsible agent for the weakening and degradation of natural material, diseases in plants, creatures, and individuals. Although the type of mould and degree of infestation will depend upon the particular conditions and available nutrients. Despite the fact that the kind of shape and level of pervasion will rely on the specifi...

Biomass is the name prearranged to all the earth's living mate. It is a general expression for material resulting from growing plant

The experiments were conducted to assess the phytotoxic effect of heavy metal (CdCl2). The responses of treatment effect comprises the variables germination %, length (cm), fresh weight and dry weight (mg) of shoot and root, root/shoot ratio, seed vigour index (SVI), reducing sugar, non reducing sugar, total sugar (mg g-1), chlorophyll content (mg...

An experiment was conducted to investigate the absorption and utilization of nitrogen by rice seed treatment with Nitrate salts (halo priming) and distilled water (hydro-priming) in two successive years. Results revealed that seed priming with Mg (NO3)2, KNO3 and Distilled water always perform better than non-primed control sets in enhancing se...

Impact of seed hardening (hydration followed by dehydration-a kind of seed priming) with water and nitrate salts were evaluated in the present piece of work in timely and late sown rice variety HUBR 2–1. Crops raised from distilled water(hydro)/Mg(NO3)2 and KNO3(osmo)hardened seeds showed an increment in fresh and dry weights, RWC(%), plant height,...

A field experiment was conducted to study the impact of seed invigoration treatments with Mg (NO3)2 and KNO3 in two wheat varieties viz. HUW-234 and HUW-468 under three different dates of sowing i.e. timely (D1), late (D2) and very late (D3). The parameters like plant height (PH), number of tillers, number of leaves, leaf area (LA), dry weight, lea...

In present investigation, a field experiment was undertaken to find out the effects of nitrate (Mg (NO3.)2 and KNO3) seed hardening (a kind of seed priming) treatment on some biochemical and physiological parameters i.e. chlorophyll, nitrogen, protein and proline contents, nitrate reductase (NR) and super oxide dismutase (SOD) activities and on yie...

Seeds of (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars CSAR-13, CSAR-27, CSAR-77, CSAR-148-205, CSAR-253, CSAR-256, Pant-12, Basmati-370, IET-11120 and IR-539-30-2-2-3-3 were subjected to water stress in terms of various external water potential during seed germination and seedling growth under osmoticum solution of PEG-6000. The cumulative germination and seedling...

Experiments were conducted in the present study to asses the effect of seed hardening (hydrationdehydration) treatment with nitrate salts viz. Mg (NO), and KNO, on some physiological changes in two varieties (HUW-234 and HUW-468) of wheat during germination under controlled temperatures, ranging from 18.5 “C to 16.5 C. Nitrate-hardened seed showed...

A field experiment was conducted during rabi season of 2001-02 with various treatment combinations including T 1-Control (N 0 P 0 K 0), T 2-Fertilizer NPK (120:60:60 Kg ha-1), T 3-½ Fertilizer NPK+ ½ Ganga carbonic khad, T 4-¾ Fertilizer NPK + ¼ Ganga carbonic khad, T 5-N (120 Kg ha-1) through Nimco + PK, T 6-Fertilizer NPK+ Bhu-amrit, T 7-N (120 K...