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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…
Hossain Ali Mondal, Suvendu Kumar Roy, Lakshmi Hijam, Moumita Chakraborty, Puspendu Dutta, Tapan Kumar Hath
Aphid establishes colony in the selective plant parts like vine, leaf petiole, leaflet, inflorescence, and tender fruit in Dolichos lablab Linn but not the entire plant. In this study, the aphid colony establishment in vine is focused to understand the differ…
Durcy Ruiz-Ciau, Luis Cuevas-Glory, Leovigildo Quijano, Enrique Sauri-Duch
The essential oils obtained by hydrodistillation from leaves and flowers of Montanoa speciosa collected in southeastern Mexico (Yucatan) were analyzed by GC-MS. A total of 71 and 79 components, representing 98.44% and 97.69% of the leaf and flower oils, respe…
Ryo Ishikawa, Takafumi Watabe, Ryo Nishioka, Pham Thien Thanh, Takashige Ishii
Differences in floral morphologies affect pollination behaviour in many flowering plants. In the genus Oryza , several differences in the size of floral organs are known. In this study, we focused on the differences in the size of floral organs between common…
Saul Eric Mwale, Mildred Ochwo-Ssemakula, Kassim Sadik, Esther Achola, Valentor Okul, Paul Gibson, Richard Edema, Wales Singini, Patrick Rubaihayo
Moisture stress is a challenge to cowpea production in the drought prone areas of eastern and north eastern Uganda, with yield losses of up to 50% reported. Genotypes grown by farmers are not drought tolerant. This study was therefore, undertaken at Makerere…
Alexander D. Pavlista
Does the endosperm pose a mechanical resistance on embryonic axis (radicle) growth for lettuce seed (achene) germination? To aid answering this question, the cell wall degrading enzyme, carboxymethylcellul a se (CMCase) was extracted and assayed from lettuce…
Jeyachandran Vijayakumar, Ponnirul Ponmanickam, P. Samuel, D. N. P. Sudarmani, J. Pandiarajan
The effect of meta-Topolin (mT) was assessed to develop a reliable protocol for efficient plant regeneration of safflower ( Carthamus tinctorius L.) cv. NARI-H-15. For micropropagation, 7 - 9 days old shoot-tip explants cultured on MS basal medium supplemente…
Shreehari Bhattarai, Sangeeta Rajbhandary
The pteridophytes comprising ferns and fern allies constitute an important part in Nepalese flora. Pteridophyte flora of the Himalayan region is consi dered to be the basic requirements for the knowledge of pteridology. This paper aims to provide the overview…
Maw Ni Soe Htet, Rab Nawaz Soomro, Haijiang Bo
An experiment was carried out at the field units of the north campus experi mental areas in Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling , Shaanxi Province, P. R. China. The experiment was conducted on summer season (June to September) to determine…
Radwan M. Barakat, Mohammad I. Al-Masri
The effects of biofungicide formula containing the biocontrol agent Trichoderma harzianum (Jn14) as wettable powder in combination with the fungicides pyrimethanil and a mixture of cyprodinil and flydioxonil on Botrytis cinerea of strawberry in vitro , in viv…
Zhenyi Li, Rene Van Acker, Nader Soltani, Peter H. Sikkema
The potential indirect effects of soil applied herbicides have not been adequately explored. The objective of this study was to explore the potential and relative importance of the indirect effects of halosulfuron applied preplant incorporated (PPI) on severa…
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