Molecular approaches are currently among the most popular topics in biological sciences and provide many opportunities in the solution of various problems. We have witnessed the common use of these approaches in the field of plant protection in the last decades. Many research projects related to entomology, plant pathology and weed sciences have been conducted using genomics, transcriptomics, prot...

The 5th International Workshop for Capacity Building in Nematology was jointly organised by the National Nematological Research Centre (NNRC) of the University of Karachi (UoK), Pakistan Society of Nematologists (PSN) and ECO Science Foundation (ECOSF) from 12-22 February 2018 at the University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan. The workshop was supported by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan ...

April 01, 1952 – June 03, 2016 What a sad news! Prof. Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad, Program Advisor, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at Pakistan Representative Office, Islamabad, and Former Chairman, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, age 64, died on Friday, June 03, 2016, after a cardiac arrest in Islamabad. Dr. Ahmad was born on April 01, 1952, in Raiwind, District Lahor...

5th International Conference of Pakistan Phytopathological Society “Crop Protection for Sustainable Agriculture” November 23-25, 2015 Institute of Agricultural Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore Read more

8th National Conference of Pakistan Phytopathological Society November 28 & 29, 2011 Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad CONFERENCE THEME: Interest in science of Plant Pathology is increasing globally due to persistent high food losses from diseases, contamination and spoilage. World’s rising demand of food with escalating population is becoming a challenge...

Prof. Manzoor Hussain Soomro, President ECO Science Foundation; Dr. Tabassum Ara Khanum, National Nematological Recearch Centre (NNRC), University of Karachi; Mr. Amjad Shahzad Gondal, Department of Plant Pathology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi participated in 6th International Congress of Nematology (6th ICN), organized by the Nematology Society of Southern Africa (NSSA) under the ...

Prof. Dr. Nazir Javed, Dr. Sajid Aleem Khan, M. Kamran, M. Raheel, Amjad Shahzad Gondal, Ali Kamran, Adnan Khaid and Abdul Jabbar participated in “12th Nematological Event: International Workshop on Biological Control of Root-knot Nematodes in Vegetables by EPNs” on 24 – 26 May, 2012 in National Nematological Research Center, University of Karachi, Karachi.