Two indigenous aquatic weeds Lemna minor and Spirodella spp., gave promising biological control of mosquito larvae with rainbow fish on field level in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 269-276

  Tariq, Rajput Muhammed ^a   Naimul Hasan Naqvi, S ^a   Naushad Zafar, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

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Indexed keywords

LEMNA; LEMNA MINOR; MELANOTAENIIDAE; PISCES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 77955119844     PISSN: 05563321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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