Kauser A. Malik

TL;DR: Recent scientific investigation has supported the important role of probiotics as a part of a healthy diet for human as well as for animals and may be an avenue to provide a safe, cost effective, and ‘natural' approach that adds a barrier against microbial infection.

TL;DR: A single-stranded DNA molecule approximately 1350 nucleotides in length is identified which, when coinoculated with the begomovirus to cotton, induces symptoms typical of CLCuD, including vein swelling, vein darkening, leaf curling, and enations.

TL;DR: The isolates obtained produced the phytohormone indoleacetic acid (IAA) in pure culture and this IAA production was enhanced in growth medium containing tryptophan and maximum increase in the root and shoot weight over control was observed in the plantlets inoculated with strain SC20.

TL;DR: The data suggest that a nanovirus-like DNA has become whitefly-transmissible as a result of its association with a geminivirus and that cotton leaf curl disease may result from a mutually dependent relationship that has developed between members of two distinct DNA virus families that share a similar replication strategy.

TL;DR: The hydrogel amendments may improve seedling growth and establishment by increasing water retention capacity of soils and regulating the plants available water supplies, particularly under arid environments as discussed by the authors, and the effects of dif ferent levels of locally prepared hydrogels were studied on the moisture properties of sandy loam and loam soils (fine-loamy, mixed, hyperthermic Typic Haplargids, USDA, Luvic Yermosol, FAO).