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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…
Kishan Saha, Rabindra Kumar Sinha, Surajit Basak, Sangram Sinha
Molecular fingerprints of four different species of Curcuma, viz., C. amada, C. caesia, C. longa and C. zedoaria , found in Tripura were developed using Inter Simple Sequence Repeats. Twenty ISSR primers generated 116 loci amplified in the range of 200 - 5000…
Anju Giri, Brenden Armstrong, Channa B. Rajashekar
Rising global CO 2 levels are a major factor that impacts not only the environment but also many plant functions including growth, productivity and nutritional quality. The study examined the impact of elevated [CO 2 ] on nutritional quality and growth charac…
Christopher G. Misar, Lan Xu, Arvid Boe, Roger N. Gates, Patricia S. Johnson, Andrew E. Olson
Determining biomass production of individual alfalfa ( Medicago sativa L.) plants in space planted evaluation studies is generally not feasible. Clipping plants is time consuming, expensive, and often not possible if the plants are subjected to grazing. A reg…
Maxwell N. Okoye, Michael I. Uguru, Claude Bakoumé, Rajinder Singh, Christy O. Okwuagwu
The genetic diversity among 15 NIFOR breeding parents was assessed using 10 microsatellite markers. A high genetic diversity was observed with a total of 64 alleles including 23 rare alleles or alleles at frequencies less than 0.05. The NIFOR tenera parents r…
Sultan H. Begna, Sangamesh V. Angadi
Canola ( Brassica napus L.) has potential to become alternative cash crop (healthy oil for human and meals for animal uses) with tremendous rotational benefits in the Southwestern U.S., a region dominated by cereal-fallow cropping systems. However, informatio…
Bhaskar Bondada
Mineral nutrition is essential to growth and development of various plant organs including fruits; consequently deficiency of any element leads to a myriad of physiological disorders, which in fruits are manifested as ripening anomalies. In this study, nutrit…
Ahmad Hama Ameen Rashid, Djshwar Dhahir Lateef
From the early past to the present, biotechnologies have produced the ability to genetically transform a wide variety of plant species. The plant transformation technologies have changed the face of agriculture and plant biology. Plant genetic transformation…
Masaya Ando, Kazuaki Kuwabara, Kiyoshi Matsubara, Hitoshi Watanabe
Caryopteris incana is a continental plant, transferred to Japan from continental Asia via a land bridge between the Korean Peninsula and Tsushima Islands during a glacial period. It currently grows wild in West Kyushu, Japan. In a previous study, we investiga…
Ayad Ismael Khaleel, Kamaruzaman Sijam, Tavga Sulaiman Rashid, Khairulmazmi Bin Ahmad
Plant pathogenic bacteria are recognized to be harmful microbes able to decrease the quantity and quality of crop production in the world. Punica granatum peel was screened for its potential use as biological control agent for plant pathogenic bacteria. P. gr…
Nelson Mpumi, Kelvin Mtei, Revocatus Machunda, Patrick A. Ndakidemi
Common beans are affected by many insect pests such as bean leaf beetle, aphids, legume pod borer and bean beetles. Traditional and cultural practices such as site selection, crop rotation, intercropping and seed selection, sowing date are used to reduce the…
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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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