The main objective of this research work was to document the ethnobotanically important plants of Pabna region, located at the Northern part of Bangladesh. For this study, 5 villages from char land and 7 villages from main land area were selected and different participatory methods (structured, semi-structured interviews, informal and focus group discussion) were employed to gain access to the information. A detail survey was conducted to identify the different professional groups living in the study area. The pattern of livelihood of the local people, their professionalism and plant based...

Micropropagation from shoot tips of one-month-old suckers of six banana cultivars and subsequent field evaluation for commercial exploitation, were studied. Among the various growth regulators, the medium with 5 mg/l BAP was found to be the most effective for micropropagation. Among the six banana cultivars, Sabari (AAB genome) was the most responsive genotype to micropropagation. Micropropagated plants of all cultivars showed significantly superior performances for yield and yield contributing characters over sucker-derived plants. In the second part induction of callus from the male flowers...

An efficient protocol for somatic embryogenesis and subsequent plant regeneration was developed for sugarcane variety Isd-16 using leaf sheath explants of 3, 6 and 12-months-old field grown plants. Explants from 6-month-old plant showed the best response and produced highest percentage of calli on MS + 3.0 mg/l 2,4-D. L-proline 25mg/l significantly enhanced somatic embryogenesis. The embryos germinated well on half-strength MS and developed into plantlets. Somatic embryo derived plants under field condition showed considerable variation in morphological, agronomical and biochemical...

The results show that vitiligo are quite prevalent and constitute a major psychological health problem in Bangladesh. The occurrence of diabetes mellitus, liver function test, renal function test, hypertension related to lipid profile and others biochemical test like uric acid, hemoglobin and specially performed T3, T4, TSH for thyroid diseases were more frequent among the patients. Particularly thyroid diseases and insulin dependent diabetes mellitus had a great interrelation with vitiligo. Significant change in serum total protein among the patients of age group below 10 and 11-20 years was...

Ninety F1 hybrids obtained by diallel cross involving ten tomato genotypes displayed wide range of variation and heterosis for ten characters studied. Heritability was the highest for no. of fruit/cluster, fruits/plant, fruit yield/plant and no. of seeds/fruit. The highest genetic advance and genetic advance expressed as percentage were recorded for the characters no. of fruits/plant and no. of seeds/fruit. The genetic advance, coefficient of variability and heritability indicated that selection of superior parents based on these characters might be effective in hybridization programme to...

The six varieties namely, BSH-2, IBON/97, BB-1, BB-2, KARAN-19 and KARAN-163 were treated with single stress at crown root initiation stage, single stress at heading stage, double stresses, one at crown root initiation and the other at heading stage with a control (without stress). Yield and yield components and the growth factors were affected by all soil moisture treatments. Correlation analysis of grain yield and yield contributing characters indicates a high positive correlation coefficient with 1000-grain weight, harvest index, tiller number/plant, fertile tiller number/plant and the...