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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…
Betzaida Jiménez-Francisco, Carlos Trejo, Hilda Araceli Zavaleta-Mancera, Blanca Moreno-Gómez, Edmundo García-Moya, Florentino Víctor Conde-Martínez, Gerardo Armando Aguado-Santacruz
In this work, we present an ultrastructural and physiological description of a novel chlorophyll-deficient, yellow cell line of the grass Bouteloua gracilis that develops etioplast-like plastids in presence of light (YELP). These mutant cells were compared to…
Tanguturi Venkata Kirankumar, Kalaiahgari Venkata Madhusudhan, Ambekar Nareshkumar, Kurnool Kiranmai, Uppala Lokesh, Boya Venkatesh, Chinta Sudhakar
Foxtail millet ( Setaria italica L.) is a drought-tolerant millet crop of arid and semi-arid regions. Aldo-keto reductases (AKRs) are significant part of plant defence mechanism, having an ability to confer multiple stress tolerance. In this study, AKR1 gene…
Roland Griggs, Ming Y. Zheng
Studies of barley and maize indicate that chromosome doubling occurs via nuclear fusion during an early stage of microspore embryogenesis, but the time and mechanism by which chromosome doubling occurs in bread wheat ( Triticum aestivum ) remains undetermined…
Dipaloke Mukherjee, Md. Abdur Roquib, Nanda Dulal Das, Soma Mukherjee
The study investigated genotypic and phenotypic co-efficients of variation, heritability, genetic advance at 5% selection intensity and in percentage of population mean of nine characters (plant height, leaf number, length and width of leaf lamina, number and…
Melissa Quinche Gonzalez, Annie Pellerin, Léon E. Parent
Adjusting the N fertilization to soil potentially mineralizable N in Histosols is required to secure high vegetable yields while mitigating nitrate contamination of surface waters. However, there is still no soil test N (STN) relating the response of Histosol…
Yanan Fu, Juanjuan Sun, Yan Ma, Shutang Xing, Lanyong Zhao, Zongda Xu, Xiaoyan Yu
In order to reveal which role the callose played in R. rugosa pollination incompatibility, the full-length cDNA sequence of β -1,3-glucanase gene was cloned for the first time from the stylus of Rosa rugosa “Tanghong” with RT-PCR and RACE methods and named as…
M. Nasir Khan
High level of salinity adversely affects growth, productivity as well as quality of vegetable crops by reducing photosynthetic capacity, enzyme activities, and by enhanced production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). These ROS cause peroxidation of membrane l…
Su-Qiu Pang, Guo-Quan Wang, Xiao-Qin Jin, Ai-Jing Sun, Jun-Sheng Lin, Yong Diao
Context: Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) Vent. (Moraceae), a traditional Chinese medicinal herb, has been extensively applied for many years to treat various diseases. Its fruits (Fructus Broussonetiae) have been commonly used as an important tonic for the treat…
Swati Rawat, Geeta Joshi, D. Annapurna, A. N. Arunkumar, Nataraja N. Karaba
Melia dubia Cav. of family Meliaceae is a fast growing, high value tree species native to India. Isolating DNA from matured dried leaves of M. dubia was difficult due to accumulation of secondary metabolites, majorly polyphenolics, which resulted in dark brow…
Baltazar Ndakidemi, Kelvin Mtei, Patrick A Ndakidemi
Beneficial insects provide natural ecosystem services such as biological control of pests, soil formation, nutrient cycling and pollination of plants. Beneficial insects include pollinators important in the essential pollination process of all plants, and nat…
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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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