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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…
Kjersti Hasle Enerstvedt, Monica Jordheim, Øyvind M. Andersen
In extracts of the seagrass Zostera marina , collected in coastal waters of West-Norway, fourteen different flavones and high amounts of rosmarinic acid were identified. Five of the flavones were found to be sulphated, among these were luteolin 7,3'-disulphat…
Hideto Hiraide, Masato Yoshida, Saori Sato, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Woody plants develop a specialized secondary xylem known as reaction wood to enable formation of an ideal shape. Reaction wood in coniferous species is known as compression wood, and that of woody angiosperms as tension wood. However, the genus Buxus which is…
Humberto Gonzalez Rodriguez, Ratikanta Maiti, Aruna Kumari, N. C. Sarkar
Context : P reliminary screening has been undertaken by woody species of Tamaulipan thornscrub for wood density and its utilization northeastern Mexico for different purposes and to find possible relationship of density with wood fibre characteristics. This t…
P. C. Chikoti, R. Melis, P. Shanahan
Cassava is the principal staple root crop, providing a major source of calories for rural and urban households in Luapula province of Zambia. However, the yields on smallholder farms are relatively low largely due to disease infections. The study was therefor…
Patrick Chiza Chikoti, Paul Shanahan, Rob Melis
Sixteen cassava genotypes comprising introductions, local landraces and improved genotypes were evaluated for two seasons in Mansa, Zambia, for their reaction to cassava mosaic disease (CMD). The study was conducted in 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons to evaluate…
Girma Getachew, Daniel H. Putnam, Christopher M. De Ben, Edward J. De Peters
Climate change, which is currently characterized by increased atmospheric CO 2, rising temperature, and altered pattern of precipitation, is affecting agricultural productivity. Rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns will alter the ability to…
Pradeep Raj Rokaya, Dilli Ram Baral, Durga Mani Gautam, Arjun Kumar Shrestha, Krishna Prasad Paudyal
Nepal produces large quantity of mandarin ( Citrus reticulata Blanco) annually but faces big losses due to improper postharvest treatments. The experiment was carried out during 2012-2013 with the objective of assessing the effect of different postharvest tre…
Jodi A. Scheffler
Cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum L.) has epidermal glands containing terpenoid aldehyde (TA) compounds that protect the plant from pests and diseases. One TA, gossypol, has two forms (+) and (-) that are present in varying amounts. This study evaluated the variati…
Hayman Kakakhan Awla, Jugah Kadir, Radziah Othman, Tavga Sulaiman Rashid, Mui-Yun Wong
A Streptomyces isolate having antifungal activity against Pyricularia oryzae , the causal agent of rice blast disease, was isolated from soil collected in rice fields of Tanjung Karang Selangor, peninsula Malaysia. The aim of the study was to determine the an…
Mariano Mendoza Elos, Gilberto Rodríguez Pérez, Francisco Cervantes Ortíz, Luis Patricio Guevara Acevedo, Enrique Andrio Enríquez, Ma. Del Carmen Ojeda Zacarías, Isabel Presa Figuereo, Sergio Alfredo Rodríguez Herrera, José Antonio Rangel Lucio, José Guadalupe Rivera Reyes
The objective of this study was to assess the chlorophyll content of corn lines at different vegetative stages and the diversity between them. The study was conducted in the experimental field of the Roque Institute of Technology (ITR) located in Roque, Celay…
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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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