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Author: Y. I. ERUM AND F. SHAHINA Publishing Date: 2010 E-ISSN: 0255-7576 Volume: 28 Issue: 1 ABSTRACT: Cereal cyst nematode (CCN) is a widely distributed pest of cereal crops in temperate climate causing root disease and significant yield losses in crop production. Conventional methods of biological assay is time consuming relatively expensive and not much efficient. The most reliable preventive measure […]

Author: F. SHAHINA  AND G. MEHREEN Publishing Date: 2010 E-ISSN: 0255-7576 Volume: 28 Issue: 1 ABSTRACT: The genus Steinernema Travassos, 1927 of the family Steinernematidae Chitwood & Chitwood 1937 si the most intensively studied group of nematode associated with insects and about 55 species of the genus have ben described to date while the family Heterorhabditidae with only one genus Heterorhabditis

Author: K. NASIRA, F. SHAHINA, M, KARMRAN AND R. ALI Publishing Date: 2010 E-ISSN: 0255-7576 Volume: 28 Issue: 1 ABSTRACT: The mangrove area along the periphery of Karachi harbor (Backwater of Sandspit) is inhabited by a variety of free-living marine nematode fauna. The mangrove environment represents one of the most intensively studied tropical marine ecosystems. It has a great ecological importance