Herbicide resistance: another hot agronomic trait for plant genome editing

A Hussain, X Ding, M Alariqi, H Manghwar, F Hui, Y Li… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Weeds have continually interrupted crop plants since their domestication, leading to a
greater yield loss compared to diseases and pests that necessitated the practice of weed …

Cotton germplasm improvement and progress in Pakistan

A Razzaq, MM Zafar, A Ali, A Hafeez, W Batool… - Journal of Cotton …, 2021 - Springer
Cotton (Gossypium spp.) contributes significantly to the economy of cotton-producing
countries. Pakistan is the fourth-largest producer of cotton after China, the USA and India …

Development and evaluation of triple gene transgenic cotton lines expressing three genes (Cry1Ac-Cry2Ab-EPSPS) for lepidopteran insect pests and herbicide …

HA Siddiqui, S Asad, RZ Naqvi, M Asif, C Liu, X Liu… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Cotton is an international agricultural commodity and the main cash crop of Pakistan of
which quality and quantity are subject to various whims of nature. Climate change, insect …

Transgenic cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) to combat weed vagaries: utility of an apical meristem-targeted in planta transformation strategy to introgress a modified …

K Karthik, M Nandiganti, A Thangaraj, S Singh… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Weeds burden plant growth as they compete for space, sunlight, and soil nutrients leading to
25–80% yield losses. Glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine] is a widely used broad …

Three strategies of transgenic manipulation for crop improvement

H Yu, Q Yang, F Fu, W Li - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Heterologous expression of exogenous genes, overexpression of endogenous genes, and
suppressed expression of undesirable genes are the three strategies of transgenic …

Herbicide-resistant cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) plants: an alternative way of manual weed removal

A Latif, AQ Rao, MAU Khan, N Shahid, KS Bajwa… - BMC research …, 2015 - Springer
Background Cotton yield has been badly affected by different insects and weed competition.
In Past Application of multiple chemicals is required to manage insects and weed control …

Assessment of salinity tolerance in rice using seedling based morpho-physiological indices

SA Zafar, S Shokat, HGMD Ahmed… - … in Life Sciences, 2015 - submission.als-journal.com
Background: Salinity is among the most damaging abiotic stresses for rice production which
limits its growing area. The present research was conducted to evaluate five rice varieties for …

Effect of Salinity (NaCl) stress on germination and early seedling growth of three medicinal plant species

F Bina, A Bostani - Advancements in Life Sciences, 2017 - submission.als-journal.com
Background: Salinity stress negatively affects the growth and yield of plants. Due to the
increasing demand for products derived from medicinal plants and with regard to the …

Morphological and biochemical characterization of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae isolates collected from Punjab during 2013

HMI Arshad, S Naureen, K Saleem… - … in Life Sciences, 2015 - submission.als-journal.com
Background: Bacterial leaf blight (BLB) of rice occupies the most significant position among
various potentially important bacterial diseases all over Pakistan. The first important step …

Development of a Triple Gene Cry1Ac-Cry2Ab-EPSPS Construct and Its Expression in Nicotiana benthamiana for Insect Resistance and Herbicide Tolerance in …

RZ Naqvi, M Asif, M Saeed, S Asad… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Insect pest complex, cotton leaf curl disease and weeds pose major threat to crop production
worldwide, including Pakistan. To address these problems, in the present study a triple gene …