Muhammad Afzal1,Naveeda Akhtar Qureshi1,*, Khalid Zamir Rasib2 and Irfan Hussain1
...ana and Dalbergia sissoo were observed most palatable and resistant wood species, respectively, in no-choice laboratory and field trials. Five different wooden pairs were evaluated in choice bioassays in laboratory and field conditions. In force feeding field bioassays, least mass loss was recorded on D. sissoo (0.19±0.07g) and maximum on P. euramericana (1.50.1g). Under choice laboratory tria...
Syed Atif Hasan Naqvi1*, Sidra Mushtaq1, Muhammad Tariq Malik2, Ummad-ud-Din Umar1, Ateeq ur Rehman1, Shoaib Fareed3, Muhammad Asif Zulfiqar4
...oo (Dalbergia sissoo) of family Papilionaceae, is a large deciduous multipurpose timber tree. In Indian-subcontinent, the tree is cultivated in forest plantation as well as avenues, road sides and canal banks. Because of greater strength, elasticity and durability, the wood is highly valued as constructional and general utility timber. This review article shows the work conducted on sheesham decline syndrome especially die back and wilt in Indian su...
Zahid Rauf, Tanvir Ahmad Qureshi, Ghayyas Ahmad and Wahiba Iqbal
...re Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo), Kikar (Acacia nilotica), Mulberry (Morus alba), Eucalyptus spp., Poplar spp. Frash (Tamarix aphylla), Bakain (Melia azedarach), Walnut (Juglans regia), Simal (Bombax ceiba), indigenous and imported Willow (Salix tetrasperma and S. alba) and Mango (Mangifera indica). It is recommended that afforestation/reforestation programs all over the country should ensure ...
Nasim Abbas, M. Yousaf Khan, Tanvir Hussain and Muhammad Zahid
...isham wood (Dalbergia sissoo). It can be used as alternate of shisham wood in manufacturing work after some processing is carried out carefully. Its also recommended for a number of uses due to its better strength figures....
I. Mukhtar, R. Bajwa and G. Nasim
Zahid Rauf and Syed Jawad Raza
...of Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo) wood properties also showed that the wood could be used as a substitute for Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo) wood for manufacturing of medium strength requiring furniture articles, cabinet work, etc. Moreover, results of the pulping characteristics showed that, small sized timber, like tree branches, wood shavings, sawdust, etc., of the species could also be used as raw material for pulp...
Muhammad Shabir Mughal and Muhammad Muslim
...us mauritiana, Dalbergia sissoo, Adhatoda vasica, Cedrula toona, Melia azedarach and rarely Tamarindus indica and Azadirachta indica. Singri is another large tract, where settlers cultivated agricultural crops like wheat, rice, maize, sugar-cane etc. This area had footprints of Hindu civilization near Singri Police Chouki, Seth Powaridas dug well on 9th January, 1860 for drinking water, currently the same well is being used for irrigation to ...
Muhammad Shabir Mughal and Muhammad Muslim
...followed by Dalbergia sissoo (pole crop), Acacia modesta, Bombax ceiba and Vitex negundo.
In Kotli district surveyed Charoi, Kohi-ratta, Anderla-kathera, Phalli, Barhai-gala, Makhwai-nala, Mothani-nala, Kerala-gali, Galyali-cross, Nakyal (Fatehpur) and Tatapani localities. The dominant species at upper elevation were Pinus roxburghii, Olea ferruginea, Pistacia integerrima, Mallotus philippensis, Pyrus pashia, Ficus auriculata, Ber...
Akhlaq Ahmad Khan
...in Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo, Roxb.), the principal tree species of the Irrigated Forest Plantations of Punjab, caused by a mysterious malady that is generally known as Sisham Die-back. This tree is the main species in the irrigated agriculture fields of Punjab as well. The problem is serious enough to have caused deliberations in three Seminars arranged by the Punjab Forestry Research Institute of the Punjab Forest Department at national level during...
Iqbal Mahmood
...), shisham (Dalbergia sissoo) and mulberry (Morus alba) woods and the same wood species found in United States of America. The results of this study reveal that the local white bakain is superior in strength than exotic species. It has also better strength when compared with other commercial hardwoods and is recommended for a number of uses. ...
Hasanuzzaman, Md., H. Mahmood, H.L. Sharif and Md. N. Islam
... loss.
...
Ashaer Farooq, Abdul Khaliq Chaudhry and Ghulam Muhammad
...e impact of Dalbergia sissoo linear planting on the growth and yield of cotton crop. The crop density was significantly affected on northern, eastern and western aspect upto 3.0 m from the base of tree rows. There was non-significant affected of tree rows on southern aspect. Crop height was also significantly affected upto 3.0m distance from the base of trees on northern and western aspects while it was non-significant on eastern and southern aspects. B...
Muhammad Afzal, Aqeela Mobeen Akhter and Masood Amjad
...ng Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo) through branch cuttings. The cuttings were prepared from one-year-old branches of resistant plus trees of Shisham having 15-20 year age and 35-40 cm diameter from different places of district Faisalabad. These cuttings were collected during January-February. The length of cuttings was kept uniform as 23 cm with a thickness of 10 mm. The cuttings were treated with bleach with 1:4 ratio for half hour to disinfect them from an...
Muhammad Afzal1, S. M. Hafeez2 and Aqeela M. Akhter3
...of shisham (Dalbergia sissoo) and kikar (Acacia nilotica) were heavily lopped. The study revealed that total volume including timber and small wood of shisham tree with the Quarter Girth formula (Field practice) came to be 60% on an average of the Local Volume Table figure. But the total volume of the same tree with the Cylindrical formula came to be 71% of the Local Volume Table figure. Along the same distributary, total volume including timber ...
Chaudhry Abdul Rashid1, Raja Muhammad Omer2, Chaudhry Muhammad Faisal2, Waqar Ahmed3, Zahid Ali4
...ala and Dalbergia sissoo) on the growth of fast growing species (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) Eight plants of E camaldulensis were replicated thrice in each treatment with a spacing of 2m x 3m. Plant height (m) and diametre at breast height (DBH) (cm) were measured annually from 1992 to 1998 Soil samples were analysed for pH, organic matter (OM) %, P, K, total soluble salts (TSS) % and soil saturation % Results indicated that the growth o...
Ghulam Mustafa Nasir
...acia nilotica, Dalbergia sissoo, Fraxinus excelsior. Albizzia lebbek, A. procera, Mangifera indica, Alnus nitida, Juglans regia, Populus euphratica. Quercus incana, Platanus orientalis, Acer caesium and Cedrela toona, major portion of the wood by volume was composed of fibers. In Acacia modesta, Melia azedarach, Tamarix aphylla, Prosopis cineraria. Bombax ceiba and Morus alba, greater volume of the wood was occupied by parenchymatous c...
Md. Serajuddoula, A. S. Khan, M. R. Islam and M. A. H. Shahjalal
...roi (A. lebbeck), sissoo (Dalbergia sissoo), jam (Syzygium cumini) and babla (A. nilotica). These plantations of above mentioned species established in the coastal areas are likely to offer sustained yield and render a permanent forest cover in the coastal belt....
Hanif Gul
... showed the Dalbergia sissoo, Cedrus deodara and
Acacia nilotica as the most resistant wood while
Salmalia malabarica and Populus x-euramericana were
found as the most susceptible woods. Extractive of the
resistant wood were chemically obtained and D. sissoo,
C. deodara, extractive have shown resistance against
termites. The trials on the influence of plant stress on
termite infestat...
Wali-ur-Rehman
...s
roxburghii, Dalbergia sissoo, Acacia modesta and A.
tortilis in the above doses....
Raja Atta Ullah Khan
...n. Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo) is the most
important multipurpose tree species in Punjab
which is extensively cultivated on public as well as
private lands. It is propagated with root shoot
cuttings. Prevailing technique of raising of shisham
nursery consists of broadcasting sowing of shisham
pods on raised beds and keeping the beds moist
with water through trenches till the seed
germinates. Although the seed germinates very
profusely and the ...
Iqbal Mahmood and G.M. Nasir
...of Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo)
and Babul (Acacia nilotica) wood. Conocarpus lancifolius
wood was found to be better than Shisham wood and
comparable to Babul wood in maximum compression parallel
to grain, compression parallel to grain at elastic
limit and impact bending strength....
Fazal Said Khan
...ulus deltoids, Dalbergia sissoo
and Salix spp.) are used in wood based industries and
generate US$ 2 million income and contribute to the
economic up lift of the area. The study also showed
significant differences of tree growing among owner ship
categories at tehsil as well as district level....
Some observations on the effect of forest tree species on ground vegetation at Pabbi Forest, Kharian
Bashir Hussain Shah
...cacia modesta, Dalbergia sissoo
and Albizzia lebbek. The cover percent of the vegetation was lowest (8.25%) under Eucalyptus camaldulensis and
highest under Zizyphus mauritiana (83%). The cover
percent under Acacea midesta and L.leucocephala was 64,
60, 53, 29, and 16%respectively. The forage production
data also showed the same trend. It was 4675, 4050,
3200, 2450, 1775, 775 and 662 kg per gertare in the plots
pla...
Wahid Rashid and Mohammad Hafeez
...f Shisham (Dalbergia
sissoo) on the yield of wheat crop. Fifty trees of
variable diameter and heights were selected for southern
side of the field and were divided into seven diameter
classes e.g.15 - 19.9, 20 - 24, 9, 25 - 29.9, 30, 34.9 cms,
35 - 39.9, 40 - 44.9 and 45 - 50 cms. Dalbergia sissoo trees
affected crop height up to a distance of 11.0 meters but
the effect was statistically non-significant....
J. A. Khan
... ; Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo) ,
Mulberry (Morus alba) , poplar (Populous spp.) and Semal
(Salmalilia malabarica) where tested for loss of
strength in relation to storage time. The results
indicated that both popular and semal were severely
decayed even after a storage period of few months while
the other two species were least affected....
S. I. Zafar, Ulfat Naheed, N. Abdullah and M. Yasin
...osition of
Dalbergia sissoo degraded by various brown and white rot fungi in the natural habitat,
their cow reticulo-rumen digestibility, and isolated D. sissoo lignin bio-degradation by
some basidiomycetes under cultural conditions....
R. F. Fisher and Zahid Javid
...ng....
S. M. Yasin and T. A. Qureshi
...followed by Dalbergia sissoo Roxb., and Tamarix
aphylla Vahl., while among the poplars, Populus alba
L., would be better than P. deltoides March., P. cilliata
Wall., P. euphratice Olivier and P. X. euramericana (Dode)
Guinier....
Mahmood Iqbal Shiekh, Saliheen Khan and Hakim Shah
...ies, mostly Dalbergia sissoo
Roxb. and Cerdrus deodara (Roxb.ex Lamb) G.Don for the
year 1990,1995 and 2000 were worked out to be 18,012,
27,379 and 36,745 m3 respectively....
Hanif Gul, M.I. Chaudhry M. Farooq and Rahmatullah Jan
...i> Linn and Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. Out of the broad leaved species and Cedrus deodara (Roxb Ex. Lanb) G. Don in the coniferous timbers showed antitermitic properties at Peshawar, National Park Lalsoharna (Bahawalpur) and Changa Manga so far.
Wood extractives of Cedrud deodara (Roxb Ex. Lanb) G.Don inner and outer wood portions, Abies webbiana, Lindl., P. roxburghii.Sargent inner and outer portion and Platanus orientalis...
M. I. Sheikh
...achta indica, Dalbergia
sissoo and Eucalyptus camaldulensis has been reviewed.
Distribution of the species, various nursery and field
planting techniques, species trials, rate of growth and
yield management of the plantations, water requirement
etc. have been discussed....
Shams-ur-Rehman and Altaf Hussain
...rogenies of Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. Tested at
Peshawar gave significant differences among geographic
areas. The broad-sense heritability at 6-year-age for
diameter was 0.83 indicating that the trait is
heritable. Further possibilities of selection and
genetic improvement in the species are discussed in
irrigated plantations of Pakistan.
...
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh
... as to how
Dalbergia sissoo, Salmalia malabarica, Eucalyptus citriodora and Populus deltoides 1-63/51
would compare under the climatic conditions obtaining in Peshawar, a study was laid-out
in February, 1978. 120 plants of each species were planted in 16 subplots at a spacing of
4 x 4 m. In each subplot, 30 plants were planted, 480 plants in all. Planting was done in a
randomised complete block design in 4 replications.
...
M.I. Sheikh, R. W. Hussain and M. Khan
...ora and Datbergia sissoo.
...
M.I. Sheikh and Abdul Aleem
...er plants.
...
M. I. Shiekh-Raza-ul-Haq
...r Shisham
(Dalbergia sissoo), the quantity of water required by
different tree species for their survival and optimum
growth has not been known. A study was started in
Chichawatni plantation to ascertain the effect of three
deltas of water viz.3,4.5 and 6 feet in four
species Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Bombax malabarica,
Morus alba and four exotic clones of poplars. It was
found that there was almost linear relationship between
the depths...
M.I. Sheikh and Raza-ul-Haq
...y, 1978....
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh and Raza-ul-Haq
...us citriodora, Dalbergia sissoo and Salmalia malabarica, a study was planted in Peshawar on 13-2-1978. 120 plants of each species were planted in 16 sub-plots at a spacing of 4 x 4 m. In each sub-plot a randomised complete block design, replicated 4 times....
G. M. Khattak and M. I. Sheikh
... with them, Dalbergia sissoo (shisham) Euc. citriodora, Populus deltoides 63/51 and Salmalia malabarica (semal) were planted in the Pakistan Forest Institute in January to February 1978 in RCB design with four replications. The size of plot was 444 m2 and trees were planted at 4.3 x 4.3 m spacing with entire plants of poplar and Eucalyptus and root-shoot cuttings of shisham and semal.
On 22-10-1979 the area was irrigate...
Estimation of diameter at breast height of Shisham (Dalbergaia sissoo Linn.) from stump measurements
Raja Walayat Hussain and S. Hassan Abbas
Effect of shade of Acacia arabica (Kikor/Babul) and Dalbergia sissoo (Shisham) on the yield of wheat
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh and Raza-ul-Haq
Mohammad Shahid and Abdul Qayyum
...he shisham (Dalbergia sissoo), phulai (Acacia
modesta), bhaikar (Adhatoda vasica), apple (Malus
sylvestris ), loquat (Eriobotrya japonica), clovers
(Trifolium spp.),serson (Brassica campestris), maize
(Zea mays),dates (Phoenix spp.), citrus fruit (all
spp.), ber (Zizphus jujube), guava (Psidium guyava) and
shain (Plectranthus rugosus)were recorded as major
sources for th...
M.I. Sheikh, Abdul Aleem and Mohammad Hafiz
... mulch for Dalbergia sissoo and Eucalyptus camaldulensis at Peshawar and Jallo. Results indicate:
1. Insignificant survival of plants.
2. Better rate of growth with aprons.
3. Significant effect on height by the material and colour of aprons.
4. Light resistant type of plastic was mere durable....
1. Insignificant survival of plants.
2. Better rate of growth with aprons.
3. Significant effect on height by the material and colour of aprons.
4. Light resistant type of plastic was mere durable....
Mohammad Hafeez
...a mulch for Dalbergia sissoo and Eucalyptus camaldulensis at Peshawar and Jallo. Results indicate:
1. Insignificant survival of plants.
2. Better rate of growth with aprons.
3. Significant effect on height by the material and colour of aprons.
4. Light resistant type plastic was more durable. ...
1. Insignificant survival of plants.
2. Better rate of growth with aprons.
3. Significant effect on height by the material and colour of aprons.
4. Light resistant type plastic was more durable. ...
Abdul Aziz Khan and M. N. Malik
...i> spp. and Dalbergia sissoo seedlings in Kalar Kahar Forest nursery. Jehlum Forest Division. The water had permissible limits of soluble salt content. The soil was however, distinctly alkaline (pH 8.4 to 8.8). Presence of unusual high content of lime was suspected to be responsible for causing deficiency of P and other available nutrients. Applications of ammonium sulphate and superphosphate are suggested to improve soil reactions and availability of ...
Raja Walayat Hussain and Ishtiaq Ahmad Qazi
Ishtiaq Ahmad Qazi, Raja Walayat Hussain and Muhammad Afzal Cheema
Asad Ali, Anwar Ali, Muhammad Farooq and Basheer Ahmad*
...18 months, and Dalbergia sissoo exhibited an average girth of 5 cm and a height of 0.4 cm in 8 months....
