PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY.pdf

ISSN 0556-3321 CODEN PJB 0B6 PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY A BIMONTHLY PUBLICATION OF PAKISTAN BOTANICAL SOCIETY Volume 38 No. 5 (Special Issue), December, 2006 Guest Editors Muhammad Ashraf Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan And Habib-ur-Rehman Athar Institute of Pure and Applied Biology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan Chief Editor: Dr. Abdul Ghaffar Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan. E-mail. shaji@.pk Subject Editors: Plant Biosystematics, Taxonomy and Evolution -Dr. M. Qaiser Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan. E-mail: flora@.pk Plant Biochemistry and Physiology -Dr. M. Ashraf Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. E-mail: ashrafbot@ Ecology, Phycology and Biodiversity -Dr. Farrukh Hussain Department of Botany, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan. E-mail: Farrukhbotany@ Cell Biology, Genetics and Microbiology -Dr. Shahida Hasnain Department of Botany, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. E-mail: genetic@.pk Mycology and Plant Pathology -Dr. Abdul Ghaffar Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan. E-mail: shaji@.pk Editorial Committee: Dr. S.I. Ali, Dr. Mustafa Shameel, Dr. S. Shahid Shaukat (University of Karachi), Dr. Iftikhar Ahmed (PARC, Islamabad), Dr. Kausar A. Malik (PAEC, Islamabad), Dr. Javed Iqbal (Punjab University, Lahore), Dr. Riaz H. Qureshi (University of Agric., Faisalabad), Mr. I.C. Hedge (Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh, UK), Dr. Klaus Lüning (Stiftung Alfred-Werger-Institut, Germany), Dr. Irwin A. Ungar (Ohio University, USA), Dr. M.A. El-Wakil (University of Mansoura, Egypt) Pak. J. Bot., 38(5): 1605-1612, 2006. COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF NACL AND SEASALT ON SEED GERMINATION OF COASTAL HALOPHYTES ABDUL HAMEED, MUHAMMAD ZAHEER AHMED AND MUHAMMAD AJMAL KHAN* Department of Botany, Un