A Valley of lush green meadows strewn with an amazing variety of wild alpine flowers which support rich and spectacular plant biodiversity of great scientific curiosity and promising economic values. This work based on the results of a project conducted in the remote West Himalayan region of Palas Valley, in order to evaluate and analyze medicinal flora of the area. Survey was carried out in 2006 which reveals 64 plant species belonging to 46 families and 59 genera, under ethnomedicinal utility by the local inhabitants of Palas Valley. Among these 35 were herbs, 12 shrubs, 13...
A Valley of lush green meadows strewn with an amazing variety of wild alpine flowers which support rich and spectacular plant biodiversity of great ...
The botanical expeditions to change Valley, District Shangla, Pakistan, were made during April 2004 to September 2005. The main aim of the study was to explore plant biodiversity of the area. The study documented 172 plant species, distributed across 65 families and 139 genera. Pteridophytes were represented by 7species and 5 genera, belonging to 4 families. Gymnosperms consisted of 7 species of 6 genera belonging to 2 families. Angiosperms were represented by 59 families; of these 143 species of 116 genera in 53 families were dicots, while 15 species of 13 genera in 7 families were monocots....
The botanical expeditions to change Valley, District Shangla, Pakistan, were made during April 2004 to September 2005. The main aim of the study was t...
SEM study of leaf surfaces are increasingly used in taxonomy for improving the classification and circumscription of taxa. An investigation of leaf surfaces of 12 taxa of the family verbenaceae collected from Peshawar, Pakistan was conducted to analyze and document the taxonomic implications. The aim of the present study was to recognize some useful diagnostic features that may be used as tools for their delimitation. The results indicate that all the species and varieties (with the exception) have stomata situated exclusively on the abaxial leaf surface (hypostomatic). Most...
SEM study of leaf surfaces are increasingly used in taxonomy for improving the classification and circumscription of taxa. An investigation of leaf ...
Poverty is one of the major problems in the world. Currently over one third of the population of Pakistan is living under the poverty line. In Pakistan various economic empowerment programs have been lunched to improve the socio economic profile of the peoples. The current study was conducted in 2008-2009 to investigate the impact of government poverty alleviation programs on the people of Peuchar Valley, Swat. The random sampling techniques were adopted and two hundred individuals and nine group questionnaires were filled from key informed person of nine Villages. The study revealed that...
Poverty is one of the major problems in the world. Currently over one third of the population of Pakistan is living under the poverty line. In Pakista...
