Shazia KousarUniversity of Karachi · Department of Botany
Shazia Kousar
Doctor of Philosophy
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The escalating challenges in global agriculture necessitate the exploration of environmentally sustainable alternatives for pest and disease management. Nanomaterials, characterized by their unique properties at the nanoscale, offer a promising avenue for addressing these challenges in a sustainable manner. This chapter reviews recent developments...
Background: Traditional medicines knowledge is more famous and well-documented in rural and remote areas in Pakistan
and worldwide than in urban areas. A present effort was made to document the ethnobotanical practices among the
communities of Karachi city and provide the basis for the development of natural drug discovery.
Methods: For ethnobotani...
Traditional medicine uses and knowledge is more famous and well documented in rural/remote areas in Pakistan and worldwide than the urban areas. The present effort was made to document the ethnomedicinal practices among the communities of Karachi city and provides the basis for the development of natural drug discovery. We are aware of no other qua...
Pipeline integrity and safety depend on the detection and prediction of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) and other defects. In oil and gas pipeline systems, a variety of corrosion-monitoring techniques are used. The observed data exhibit characteristics of nonlinearity, multidimensionality, and noise. Hence, data-driven modeling techniques have been...
Lead (Pb) is a toxic heavy metal that contaminates soil and water resources after its discharge from different industries. This research study was held to check the consequence of Pb stress and NaHS growth regulator on physicochemical features of Mamodica charantia. A pot experiment was conducted to determine the effect of NaHS (1 Mm and 1.5 Mm) fo...
The present paper elaborates the results of vegetation and floristic research carried out in the valley of Hunza, Central Karakorum Mountains, northern Pakistan. The field surveys conducted from 2011-2012 ended with the collection of 324 species in 183 genera and 48 families. Based on geo-climatic conditions and floristic assemblage the vegetation...
Traditional medicine uses and knowledge is more famous and well documented in rural/remote areas in Pakistan and worldwide than the urban areas. The present effort was made to document the ethnomedicinal practices among the communities of Karachi city and provides the basis for the development of natural drug discovery. We are aware of no other qua...
The present paper elaborates the results of vegetation and floristic research carried out in the valley of Hunza, Central Karakorum Mountains, northern Pakistan. The field surveys conducted from 2011-2012 ended with the collection of 324 species in 183 genera and 48 families. Based on geo-climatic conditions and floristic assemblage the vegetation...
The current paper elaborates the wild edible plants’ (WEPs) diversity, and associated traditional knowledge among three ethnic groups of Balochistan Province, Pakistan. The field trips were carried out in 2018-2020 employing purposive sampling techniques for respondents. We used open ended semi-structured interviews for data collection. A total of...
A new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, has emerged from South Africa, indicating that the pandemic will not be over anytime soon. An unimaginable amount of economic damage has resulted from the pandemic. Omicron and its economic implications are discussed in detail in this review article. It also includes statistics on occurrence, mortality, and recupera...
Despite massive efforts to protect plant diversity around the world over the last few decades, it is becoming increasingly evident that present policies are insufficient to prevent the continued trends of decline in biodiversity. The encroachment of humans and their animals on protected areas is causing changes in its natural environment. This stud...
Background: Wild Food Plants (WFPs) are a natural source of food in many rural communities and potential source
of local food security. However, over-harvesting and excessive utilization endanger their survival. This study was
conducted to document the diversity of wild edible plants along with their customary food uses from Lawat area
Neelum Valle...
Traditional ecological knowledge, linguistic, and sociocultural perspectives are key contributors to environmental sustainability. Therefore, it is essential to identify and preserve this biocultural heritage, especially that of indigenous communities and minorities. We conducted an ethnobotanical survey to document the plant species used by the Ba...
Neelum valley has huge wealth in medicinal plants because of its unique geographical location and also provides baseline for the upcoming pharmacological research applications. This study was conducted in Lawat village Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir, to document wild medicinal Flora and their folk medicinal uses. An open-ended, free listening, questio...
Corrosion is a foremost problem in many industries. In the petrochemical industry it impacts the equipment and assets of refineries and other facilities. Uncontrolled corrosion can cause leaks and component failures, bringing about a reduction in both the performance and reliability of important equipment. Corrosion can lead to unexpected failures...
The indigenous medicine involves the use of various plant extracts or the bioactive constituents, phytochemical analysis of such plants confirm the presence of different phytochemicals. Datisca cannabina Linn belong to family Datiscaceae. The whole plant is used in medicines in a mixture forms. The aim of this study was to assess the seeds of Datis...
Chloroplast non-coding regions are now frequently used in plant phylogenetic studies as they exhibit more
genetic variations. The resolving power of an intergenic spacer region trnL-trnF was evaluated on Convolvulus
species. Genus Convolvulus L. has many economic advantages. Genus specific primer set was designed and used
for polymerase chain react...
A molecular systematics analysis was conducted using sequence data of chloroplast rbcL gene for the genus Convolvulus L., by distance and character based phylogenetic methods. Fifteen representative members from genus Convolvulus L., were included as ingroup whereas two members from a sister family Solanaceae were taken as outgroup to root the tree...