Shumaila Moin

• Research Assistant at University of Karachi

Tomato production and quality are of great economic importance, but farmers face significant losses due to root rot infection, which affects tomato yield. Globally, a wide range of chemical pesticides are used to control plant diseases that have an impact on the environmental and nutritional content of the crop. In this scenario, plant growth-pro...

Management of plant root diseases by the application of seaweed and endophytic bacteria, particularly fluorescent Pseudomonas, is capturing the interest of plant scientists. In this study, the effect of seaweed soil amendment alone or mixed with endophytic fluorescent Pseudomonas (EFP-47) in reducing the root infecting fungi of okra was evaluated i...

Potato, one of the most important vegetable crops, is feeding the growing global population. It has an enormous economic outlet however; fungal and bacterial pathogens associated with seed tuber cause huge losses in its production. Planting healthy seed potatoes is a key factor in maximizing the production of potatoes for consumption or processin...

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is a component of the solar radiations that alter various physiological and biochemical processes in plants. There have been interests in UV-C and UV-B radiations because of their effects on plant physiology. In this study, we investigated the effect of short term UV irradiance on both biochemical parameters and pathogeni...

Endophytes are bacteria and fungi that are contained entirely within the plant tissue, are non-pathogenic and may be mutualistic. Beneficial interaction between endophytic fungi and plant have been reported including plant growth promotion and suppression of plant pathogens. In this study out of 88 plant samples endophytic Trichoderma spp., were is...

Aims The efficacy of three isolates of endophytic Penicillium species that have shown significant suppressive effect on root rotting fungi in our previous study were further evaluated in pots and field plot experiments for their effect on root diseases of okra, induction of systemic resistance and physiochemical properties of okra fruit. Methods a...

Treatment of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L), with strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PGPR) as a seed treatment and soil drench methods showed significant (P<0.05) result against root pathogenic fungi (Rhizoctonia solani, Fusarium solani, Macrophomina phaseolina and F.oxysporum). PGPR-(4, 11, 17, 28) were found promising strains of P.aeruginosa sho...

Application of endophytic Pseudomonas aeruginosa, P. putida and P. monteilii, in soil amended with Launaea nudicaulis, a medicinal plant showed a significant suppression of Macrophomina phaseolina on sunflower in screen house trials as compared to bacteria applied in un-amended soil. Treatment of P. aeruginosa alone or with combination of L. nudica...

The mature and healthy fruits of Luffa cylindrica were collected from its plant grown in Gulshan-e-Maymar, Karachi. The fruits were studied for their size, brood size and seed characteristics. The brood size was highly variable and varied from 203 to 734 seeds per fruit. Mean single seed weight (MSSW) was found to vary amongst the fruits significan...