Shamyla Nawazish

• Professor
• Professor (Associate) at COMSATS Information Technology Center – CITC

Soil salinity caused by NaCl is a major challenge to agricultural crops worldwide. For this, two WRKY transcription factors were evaluated for their role in salt stress tolerance in tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum; Sl). SlWRKY36 and SlWRKY51 provided novel insight into the regulatory mechanism in tomato against salt stress via virus-induced gen...

The development of advanced porous materials with enhanced removal efficiency is a significant advancement in the remediation of toxic pollutants, contributing to a cleaner environment. This study aims to investigate the application of functionalized silica hybrids as adsorbents to control the release of toxic pollutants by exploring their adsorpti...

Potato tubers collected from different areas showed the prevalence of dry rot with characteristic white mycelia of Fusarium pathogen. Fusarium species on diseased tubers were isolated based on morphological features. 18S-ITS based analysis followed by Phylogenetic tree constructed using TEF1-α identified Fusarium isolates as Fusarium verticilloides...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is the most common attack that obstructs a network and makes it unavailable for a legitimate user. We proposed a deep neural network (DNN) model for the detection of DDoS attacks in the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm. SDN centralizes the control plane and separates it from the data plane. It s...

Potato is one of the highly consumed vegetable crop grown in different regions across Pakistan that is affected by fungal diseases. The current research was conducted to identify fungal pathogen causing mold-like disease of potato in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. For molecular identification and characterization of the fungal disease; potato t...

Background: Skin wounds affect millions of individuals around the world, and their treatment is expensive. Objective: The purpose of this study was to make neomycin-loaded CG/PVA/PAN (NCPP) nanofibers to improve wound healing. Methods: The NCPP nanofibers were characterized by using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), scanning electron microscopy (SE...

High throughput screening of synthetic compounds against vital enzymes is the way forward for the determination of potent enzyme inhibitors. In-vitro high throughput library screening of 258 synthetic compounds (comp. 1–258), was performed against α-glucosidase. The active compounds out of this library were investigated for their mode of inhibition...

Green biomass is a renewable and biodegradable material that has the potential use to trap urea to develop a high-efficiency urea fertilizer for crops’ better performance. Current work examined the morphology, chemical composition, biodegradability, urea release, soil health, and plant growth effects of the SRF films subjected to changes in the thi...

A new naphthalimide-based fluorescent probe NS with exceptional J-aggregates based aggregation-induced emission enhancement (AIEE) properties was rationally synthesized through a single-step imidation reaction. Probe NS exhibited excellent AIEE properties in aqueous media through the formation of J-aggregates with remarkable red-shift. The AIEE act...

Citation: Jadoon, S.; Nawazish, S.; Majeed, Z.; Baig, A.; Bukhari, S.M.; Faiz, A.u.H.; Ghanim, A.A.J.; Irfan, M.; Rahman, S.; Ullah, F. Health Abstract: This research was carried out to analyze variations in indoor and outdoor ozone concentrations and their health impact on local communities of megacities in Pakistan. For indoor ozone measurements,...

Background Taxus wallichiana is an evergreen tree species found in the Himalayan region of Pakistan. The tree possesses important secondary metabolites such as Taxol that has been implicated in treating breast, ovarian and colon cancer. Therefore keeping in view the importance of this plant species, silver nanoparticles were synthesized using Taxus...

Urea is a crucial nutrient for plant growth, but because of its substantial losses due to nitrification, ammonification, and subsurface leaching, there is currently a push to reduce these losses. Urea is frequently uploaded and trapped in gelatin. In this research, the improvement of urea uploading and encapsulation efficiency is investigated using...

Apart from environmental implications, the extreme toxicity of cyanide can lead to sudden human death upon prolonged exposure to it. Hence, rapid and low-level on-site detection of cyanide has earned paramount significance in the present era. Therefore, an AIEE active and piezofluorochromic Schiff base (probe 2) was synthesized which exhibited high...

Rational modification of molecular structure by incorporating electron donating groups can play a potential role for designing aggregation induced emission (AIE) active fluorescent probes. Based on this principle, fluorescent probes (1a-c) were synthesized, and they displayed excellent aggregation induced emission (AIE) behavior in a H2O/DMF (4 : 1...

In clinical practice bacterial resistance against antibiotics has become a serious health problem, thus using alternative approaches such as natural products as the supplementary drug could solve it. Therefore, the current study was conducted to thoroughly investigate the enrichment of phytochemicals and antibacterial potential of O. japonicum . Th...

This study was designed to assess the health impacts related to noninvasive carbon monoxide saturation (SPCO %) in the blood of respondents. For this purpose, 150 respondents from the labour community of Hattar Industrial Estate (testing site) and 100 respondents from Sultan Pur (control site) were selected. To achieve this objective, a Rad-57 Puls...

It is about occupational health impacts of air pollutants on labour community of Hattar industrial estate; KPK; Pakistan

Nitroaromatic explosives are a class of compounds that are responsible for various health hazards and terrorist outrages. Among these, sensitive detection of 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (TNP) explosive has always been highly desirable considering public health and national security. In this regard, three fluorene-based conjugated polymers (CP 1, CP 2, and...

This research study aimed to remove chromium (Cr 6+) from aqueous and industrial effluent by natural Gallus gallus domesticus eggshell waste magnetized with Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles (MES). A literature survey showed that the sorption of Cr on the modified magnetite form of this biomass had not been explored before. Structure, morphology, functional g...

Bad water quality has serious implications for human health, which may include gastrointestinal, liver, respiratory diseases and even cancer. In view of drinking water hardness in the study area, it was hypothesized that bad water quality has some association with the renal disorders. The possible association between nephrolithiasis, drinking water...

This is for air pollutants identification. Needs foreign authors for submission.

In herbalism, botanical supplements are commonly believed to be safe remedies, however, botanical supplements and dietary ingredients interact with transport and metabolic processes, affecting drug disposition. Although a large number of studies have described that botanical supplements interfere with drug metabolism, the mode of their interaction...

The continuously increasing air pollution within the third world countries (such as Pakistan) is causing health related problems in the local residents. The objective of the present study is to quantify major pollutants present in the air (sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), carbon monoxide-(CO), noise level and suspended particulate matter (SPM)) as well as c...

Over the past few years, considerable attention has been focused on carrageenan based bionanocomposites due to their multifaceted properties like biodegradability, biocompatibility, and nontoxicity. Moreover, these composites can be tailored according to the desired purpose by using different nanofillers. The role of ferromagnetic nanoparticles in...

Research study evaluating levels of toxic metals along roads, which are polluted with dust from exhaust smoke and sand dust is timely. Five (5) each sampling sites were strategically selected along motorway M-3 and national highway N-5 in Pakistan. The sites were designated as M-3a, M-3b, M-3c, M-3d, M-3e and N-5a, N-5b, N-5c, N-5d and N-5e respect...

A new series of N-bridged heterocycles 1,2,4-triazolo[3,4-b][1,3,4]thiadiazine derivatives (6a-e) have been synthesized by the condensation of 4-amino-5-(4-methoxyphenyl)-4H-1,2,4-triazole-3-thiol and various substituted phenacyl bromides in absolute ethanol in high yields. Cyclic voltammetric and molecular docking methods have been used to investi...

This study was conducted to examine the intensity and effects of automobile related metal pollution (Pb2+ & Cd2+) on soil and physiological attributes of native plant species i.e., Calotropis procera, Cenchrus ciliaris and Parthenium hysterophorus. For this purpose, soil and plant samples were collected from zero and 50 m distances on Motorway (M-3...

In order to assess as to whether traits related to plant photosynthetic capacity such as chlorophyll fluorescence and net CO2 assimilation rate could be used as indicators for drought tolerance in maize, 5 synthetic and 2 hybrids were subjected to PEG-induced water stress for 3 weeks. Although the growth of all maize cultivars was significantly red...

Drought is one of the most serious environmental hazards that Pakistan is facing at present. It is even more severe to the agricultural crops and only for that single reason vast arid lands remain uncultivated each year. Precipitation ratio, in general, too very low in most of parts of Pakistan, and there is a crying need to hunt suitable germplasm...