Ethno-medicinal Survey for Some Wild Plants of Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

Wild plants have always held economic, nutritional and medicinal value for human beings. Present work is the study of local information of some wild plants being used for remedial purposes in District Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. The indigenous knowledge of local conventional uses was collected through survey and personal interviews during field trips. A total of 50 plant species were identified by taxonomic description using field guides and locally by medicinal knowledge of people living in the area. About 150 informers were interviewed randomly to record local names and ethno-medicinal uses of different plant species

CAMPARATIVE STUDY OF OOSTING SCALE OF WEED SPECIES FOUND IN SUGARCANE, MAIZE, RICE AND WHEAT FIELDS OF DISTRICT BANNU, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PAKISTAN

The research work presented was initiated during 2013 to get information and report common weeds found in cereal crops (Maize, Rice and Wheat) and sugarcane fields of District Bannu. The relative density of weeds was determined by using the Oosting scale method. As a whole about 135 weeds plant belonging to 37 families were collected, identified botanically, documented and preserved. The most common families in terms of abundance and number of species infesting above mention crops were Asteraceae (54%, 20 species), Poaceae (51%, 19 species), Amaranthaceae, Boraginaceae and Solanaceae (21%, 8 species). Papilionaceae, Brassicaceae and Euphorbiaceae (18.9%, 7 species). Malvaceae and Polygonaceae (13.5%, 5 species), Chenopodiaceae (10.8%, 4 species), Plantaginaceae (8%, 3 species). Verbenaceae, Genetaceae, Convolvulacea, Cucurbitaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Apiaceae, and Asclepiadaceae (5.4%, 2 species). The rest of the families were represented by 2.7% with only one species each. According to Oosting Scale Cynodon dactylon, Echinochloa crus-galli, Eclipta alba Enneapogon avrnuceus an