Pathogens and pests always have been and still is a potential threat to agricultural production worldwide. Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is nutritionally a balanced staple food; therefore, it has potential to minimize the pressure on cereal crops in Pakistan. Viral diseases are major problem in stable crop production, especially in vegetative propagated plants such as potato where diseases are easily transmitted from one clonal generation to the next. Conventional methods of virus control are limited to use of virus-free seed tubers and chemical control of insect vectors. However, development of resistant cultivar is the only effective, economical and environmentally safe method of disease control. The use of RNA silencing has become the tool of choice for gene silencing in many crop species. The key element of this technology is the discovery of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), diced into small interfering RNAs (siRNA), which is a potent trigger for RNA silencing. By arranging transgenes as inverted repeats encoding self-complementary hairpin RNA (hpRNA), which is diced into siRNA after transcription, it is possible to obtain strong silencing of expression of homologous RNA. Using this technology efficient simultaneous knock-down of multiple genes of three different viruses have been achieved by using a single RNAi construct in potato. In this study, the transgenic resistance in potato was obtained based on the construction of hairpin RNA plant expression cassettes I and II containing the sequences of different genes of three important potato viruses. The cassette I containing the short sequences of Nucleocide Triphosphate binding helicase (NTP) gene of Potato Virus X (PVX), Helper Component Protease (HC-Pro) gene of Potato Virus Y (PVY) and Coat Protein (CP) gene of Potato Leaf Roll Virus (PLRV), while the expression cassette II contains the sequences of CP genes of PVX, PVY and PLRV. The sense and anti-sense fragments of these genes were fused separately to form a chimeric N gene and arranged in an RNAi vector as inverted repeats, under the CaMV 35S promoter, separated by intron. These expression cassettes were transformed separately in potato cv Kuroda and Desiree through Agrobacterium mediated transformation by using Agrobacterium tumefacience strain LBA 4404. Fourteen independent transgenic lines of each cassette were developed and transferred to containment after analysis of T0 transgenic plants by PCR and Southern hybridization for the presence of transgenes. The transgenic expression of these cassettes showed that up to 20 % of the transformed plant lines were resistant and 46 % were tolerant to all three viruses. The analysis of the resistant plants showed accumulation of siRNA as compared to susceptible transgenic and non-transformed control plants. This indicates that the resistance is due to simultaneous RNA silencing of the three target genes in each construct. Overall, the work presented here demonstrates a simple procedure to obtain broad spectrum virus resistance in two commercial potato cultivars Kuroda and Desiree by RNA silencing technology. At present, another independent study is being conducted to multiply and evaluate the field performance of putative transgenic potato lines after obtaining approval of National Biosafety Committee (NBC) of Environment Protection Agency (EPA), Government of Pakistan. In future, studies to improve frequency of developing multiple virus resistant plants could be attempted by extending the transgenes construct with a large number of smaller fragments of target genes. Moreover, it is possible that present strategy can be extended to other plant species to obtain broad spectrum resistance against many other devastating
میری جان پاکستان محبت کی زباں میرا وطن ہے وفا کی داستاں میرا وطن ہے زندگی تو جیسے بھی ہوگزر جاتی ہے، سورج آگ برسا رہا ہو،موسم سرما کی یخ بستہ ہوائیں شدت کی سردی کا سبب بن رہی ہوں ، موسم بہار میں گلستان کے گلہائے رنگارنگ خوبصورتی بکھیر رہے ہوں۔ ہرلمحہ ہر آن زندگی کاہمامحو پرواز رہتا ہے، لیکن وہ شخص قابل صد افتخار ہے جو زندگی کی بو قلو موینوں سے محبت و پیار سے نبردآزما ہوتا ہے، اور محبت و پیارکی پتنگیںاُس وقت تک نہیں چڑھائی جا سکیں گی جب تک ماحول خوشگوار نہ ہو اور انسیت بھری فضاء نہ ہو۔ اللہ تعالیٰ کا لاکھ لاکھ شکر ہے کہ اللہ تعالیٰ نے ہمیں پاکستان کی صورت میں نعمت غیر متر قبہ سے نواز رکھا ہے۔ اس سے محبت ہمارانہ صرف طبعی تقاضا ہے کہ ہمارے عزیز واقارب یہاں رہائش پذیر ہیں ، ہماری سانسوں کی یہاں آمدورفت ہورہی ہے، اس کے شجر، اس کے حجر ہماری زندگی میں ایک اہم اور فعال کردار ادا کرتے ہیں۔ بلکہ اس سے محبت ہمارے ایمان کا حصہ ہے۔ فرمانِ رسالت مآب صلی اللہ علیہ و آلہٖ وسلم ہے کہ ’’ حب الوطن من الایمان‘‘ وطن سے محبت ایمان کا حصہ بھی ہے۔ ہمارے تو ایمان کی تکمیل ہی وطن سے محبت میں مضمر ہے۔ اگر محبت اور پیار ہے تو ایمان مکمل ہے، اگر وطن سے پیار اور محبت نہیں ہے تو دعویٰ ایمان حقیقت سے یکسر خالی ہے۔ میں کیوں نہ کہوں کہ پاکستان میری جان ہے، میری آن ہے، میری شان ہے۔ انسان اس فانی زندگی میں بھی اپنی جان سے بڑھ کر محبت اور پیار کرتا ہے ، جان کی حفاظت بھی ایمان کی ضروریات میں سے ہے۔ کیونکہ جان سلامت ہے تو پھر ایمان بھی سلامت ہے۔ اور جان کے تحفظ کے...
Earning lawful is considered as a worship in the Holy Quran and traditions of Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him). But unfortunately, it has become very difficult to earn halal in present age due so many obstacles into the society. The purpose of this research article is to uncover the social obstacles and hurdles in the way of lawful earning. Qualitative and descriptive research approach is employed for the collection, demonstration, and analysis of data. The review of literature revealed that there are so many hurdles in the society in the way of halal earning. For instance, Wrong wishes of lowerself, lust, bad social practices, influence of media are the most common among them. It is therefore recommended that Quranic messures should be taken in order to diminish these obstacles and to make the way of lawful earning easy.
A new class of general variational inclusions involving difference of operators has been investigated. Using resolvent operator and resolvent equations technique, it is shown that general variational inclusions and fixed point problems are equivalent. Using this equivalent formulations, we prove the existence of a solution of general variational inclusion. Iterative schemes and its convergence is also discussed. We study some dynamical systems associated with variational inclusion. The dynamical system is used to discuss the existence of the variational inclusion using Lipschitz continuity only. Some Merit functions are constructed for the variational inclusions. Using these merit functions, some error estimates are obtained under suitable assumptions. Sensitivity analysis is analyzed using the resolvent equations. Several classes of variational inclusion and optimization problem are discussed which can be obtained as special cases from our results.