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American Journal of Plant Sciences (AJPS) is an openly accessible journal published monthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of plant sciences. All manuscripts subm…
Tania Mayumi Ito, Claudia Borsari Trevizan, Tiago Benedito dos Santos, Silvia Graciele Hülse de Souza
The Dof (DNA-binding with one finger) proteins are a class of plant-specific transcription factors that can trigger several processes involved in plant growth and development, as well as in stress responses. Here, we performed a systematic bioinformatics anal…
Kássia C. F. Zilch, Simone M. Jahnke, Andreas Köhler, Eduarda Bender
Lasioderma serricorne is known to be pest of tobacco, besides of attacking other products in storage. Anisopteromalus calandrae is an ectoparasitoid of coleopteran larvae also parasitizing the tobacco beetle. This study was aimed to evaluate the parasitism of…
Walaa Siblani, Mustapha A. Haidar
The current emphasis on reducing herbicide applications has led to an increase in alternative weed control measures. Field experiment was conducted in the spring of 2014 to examine the effect of hilling-time and reduced-rates of metribuzin and their combinati…
Doan Cong Dien, Takeo Yamakawa, Toshihiro Mochizuki, Aung Zaw Htwe
Drought is one of the main factors limiting rice ( Oryza sativa L.) productivity and has become an increasingly severe problem in many regions worldwide. Establishing breeding programs to develop new drought-tolerant varieties requires an understanding of the…
Erich Celestino Braga Pereira, Fernando Bezerra Lopes, Francisco Emanoel Firmino Gomes, Aldênia Mendes Masceno de Almeida, Ana Caroline Messias de Magalhães, Eunice Maia de Andrade
Erosion is the natural process which has the greatest environmental impact, and is the principal trigger for desertification around the globe. The main model used to estimate soil loss by erosion is the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), which unites the ma…
Ricardo Alberto Martínez Tovar, Laura Constanza Rojas Basto, Pablo Andrés Motta Delgado, Wilmer Herrera Valencia
Livestock is the most important economic activity in San Vicente del Caguán municipality, Caquetá department (located in Colombian Amazon region). Indeed, livestock activities have a big responsibility of Colombian Amazon forest deforestation for extensive gr…
Flávio Couto Cordeiro, Claudete Santa-Catarina, Vanildo Silveira, Roberta Cristiane Ribeiro, 1 1, Sonia Regina de Souza
The bioactivity of humic acids (HA) is mainly due to the presence of auxin analogs. In turn, nitric oxide (NO) production in plants affects root growth and may result from endogenous auxin production or the application of synthetic auxin analogs or HA. Nitric…
Ernest Asante Korankye, Rajasekaran Lada, Sam Asiedu, Claude Caldwell
Senescence is a natural, energy-dependent, physiological, developmental and an ecological process that is controlled by the plant’s own genetic program, allowing maximum recovery of nutrients from older organs for the survival of the plant, as such; it is cla…
José Maria Barbat Parfitt, André Andres, Germani Concenço, Gustavo Mack Teló, Fábio Schreiber, Jaqueline Trombetta da Silva, Ivana Santos Moisinho, Pâmela Andrades Timm
The present work aimed to evaluate the effect of different water stress levels on the development of both rice and barnyardgrass. The study was established into greenhouse, in completely randomized design, in factorial scheme 2 × 5, with four replications. Fa…
Mohammad Quamrul Islam Matin, Md. Shalim Uddin, Md. Motiar Rohman, Mohammad Amiruzzaman, Abul Kalam Azad, Bhagya Rani Banik
The present study was carried out to access correlation coefficient, path analysis and genetic variability among twenty one locally developed maize hybrids for ten characters. Positive and significant genotypic, phenotypic correlation coefficient were recorde…
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American Journal of Plant Sciences (AJPS) is an openly accessible journal published monthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of plant sciences. All manuscripts subm… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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