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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…
Hong Liang, Yuyuan Huang, Shizhen Lin, Kangsai Zhao, Yufeng Zou, Xinfan Yu, Lijun Yang, Wang Xu, Zhu Ming, Zhibin Zhou
In this study, Yangmeikeng mountain area with a long-term natural restoration status (communities 1, 2, and 3) and Chiao mountain area with an artificially disturbed status (communities 4 and 5) in Shenzhen in China were subjected to plant community compositi…
Shimendi Gde Okbagabir, N. N. Angiras, Biniam Mesfin Ghebreslassie
The productivity of maize in Eritrea in general and under semi-arid tropics of Hamelmalo in particular is low because of moisture stress. The low moisture content is ascribed to the low and erratic distribution of rainfall, high temperature, lack of suitable…
Muhammad Iqbal, Naveed Iqbal Raja, Saira Asif, Noshin Ilyas, Mubashir Hussain, Farhat Yasmeen, Muhammad Ejaz, Muhammad Asim Sultan, Sumaira Aslam, Hina Javed
The potential for biotechnological applications in crop improvement programs requires identifying genotypes that allow cell/tissue culture with predictable plant regeneration. In the past, many genotypes of wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) have been examined for…
Joel Ransom, Senay Simsek, Blaine Schatz, Eric Eriksmoen, Grant Mehring, Itai Mutukwa
Hard red spring wheat in North America must be high in protein in order to avoid costly discounts when marketed. Many newer cultivars have higher yield potential but produce relatively lower grain protein levels. A post-anthesis foliar application of urea-amm…
Takanori Kuronuma, Hitoshi Watanabe
Different vegetation types used for the extensive green roofs have characteristic physiological and morphological traits (e.g., C 3 , C 4 , or CAM photosynthesis, deciduous or evergreen). Several Sedum species are recognized as “inducible CAM” type plants. Th…
Hokyung Baek, Unhaing Cho
For plants growing in parks and along the roadsides of a city, the environmental and seasonal regulation of growth, or photosynthesis, is seldom assessed. The phenology of plants may differ due to varying environments, which may result in different growth or…
Carlos Augusto Priante da Silva, Cristina Pacheco Soares, Walderez Moreira Joaquim, Renato Farina Menegon
Acmella oleracea is a plant species belonging to the Asteraceae family, native to the Amazon that has broad therapeutic and culinary use. Several secondary metabolites and your bioactive component spilanthol have been associated with its medicinal effects. Th…
Hao Feng, Jun Yang, Dengfei Li
In this paper, we studied the morphological, histological and photosynthetic characteristics of the stably inherited sunflower petal-sepal mutant, and it was obtained by the space radiation-induced mutagenesis. Afterwards, we got following results: 1) The mor…
Tadesse Yohannes, Kahiu Ngugi, Emanuel Ariga, Tesfamichael Abraha, Nasser Yao, Pauline Asami, Monday Ahonsi
Sorghum ( Sorghum bicolour (L.) Moench), the second most important staple crop in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) after maize, is well adapted to marginal environments of drought stress and high temperatures. But besides drought stress, the obligate root-parasitic f…
Saori Sato, Masato Yoshida, Yousuke Ashizaki, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
The cell wall in wood is mainly composed of three components: cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. According to electron microscopy observations of the innermost surface of cell walls in the tracheids of Cryptomeria japonica , cellulose microfibrils are depos…
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