From travel bans to academic operations shutdowns due to COVID-19 pandemic – coronavirus is changing life as we know it. The world is paying close attention to the outbreak of novel coronavirus, following its emergence in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. With the outbreak of a novel coronavirus declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, people worldwide are working to address it. It’s...

7th International Conference of Pakistan Phtytpathological Society “Phytopathology: Current Scenario and Future Prospects” November 25–26, 2019 Jointly organized by Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad & Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad The Phytopathological Society of Pakistan was established in 1983 as the first platfor...

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 (HE...

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...