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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…
Silvia Morgutti, Noemi Negrini, Alessandra Ghiani, Federica Baldin, Daniele Bassi, Maurizio Cocucci
Endopolygalacturonase (endoPG) plays a pivotal role in determining peach [ Prunus persica L. (Batsch)] fruit characteristics. Different Pp-endoPG genes or allelic variants have been described, characterized by different polymorphisms: insertions-deletions (In…
Alexander Francisco Rojas-Alvarado
Three new species are described and another is recognized in Campyloneurum . Two species occur in Mexico to El Salvador and the others two are present in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. The new species are Campyloneurum acutum A. Rojas, C. leoniae A. Rojas…
Diego Armando Neira, Aldo Rubén Andrada, Valeria de los Ángeles Páez, Ana María Rodriguez, Norma Fabiana Ríos, Olga Gladys Martínez, Marcela Alicia Hernández
Doryopteris triphylla (Pteridaceae-Cheilanthoideae) grows in xeric habitats in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. The aim of this study was to characterize D. triphylla anatomically, histochemically and cytogenetically. For anatomical characterization,…
Jack C. McCarty, Johnie N. Jenkins, Russell W. Hayes, Martin J. Wubben
The number of cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum L.) plants being grown per unit of land area has gained attention due to the technology fees associated with seed containing value added traits. We investigated boll retention, yield, and yield components of cotton gr…
Monique Goguen, Paul A. Arp
This article describes how the cartographic depth-to-water (DTW) index in combination with other variables can be used to quantify, model and map the distribution of common forest floor bryophytes, at 1 m resolution. This was done by way of a case study, usin…
Nabanita Bhattacharyya, Subhajit Mondal, Shuvojit Moulik, Sathi Paul, Shreoshi Bhattacharrya, Alok Kumar Hazra, Md. Nasim Ali, Anjan Adhikari, Amitava Chatterjee
Tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. Black tea, obtained from the leaves of Camellia sinensis is the preferred beverage in India and in most western countries. Epidemiological studies on black tea and cancer are limited. However, pre…
Achyut Kumar Banerjee, Swayambhu Ghosh, Anjana Dewanji
The successful establishment of an invasive plant in a novel environment has been attributed to the phenotypic plasticity of plant traits, with most studies focussing on vegetative trait plasticity in either experimental and/or natural habitat conditions. Thi…
Nelmício Furtado da Silva, Giovani Saccardo Clemente, Marconi Batista Teixeira, Frederico Antônio Loureiro Soares, Fernando Nobre Cunha, Luis Otávio da Silva Azevedo
In addition to essential macronutrients and micronutrients, bioregulators, biostimulants or bioactivators are being increasingly used on agricultural crops with important outcomes. Therefore, improved knowledge on the functioning of these chemicals on plants…
Daniel MacVeigh-Fierro, Erkan Tüzel, Luis Vidali
Understanding how plant cells adapt dynamically to changes in the environment is a fundamental problem of plant biology. Under many conditions, plant cells respond to environmental changes by modifying their intracellular organization. A critical example of i…
Yutaka Jitsuyama
Excess soil moisture induces hypoxic conditions and causes waterlogging injury in soybean [ Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. This study investigated the mechanism underlying the development of waterlogging injury. Nine Japanese soybean cultivars with varying degrees…
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