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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…
Chongjing Xia, Meinan Wang, Anmin Wan, Derick A. Jiwan, Deven R. See, Xianming Chen
Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici ( Pst ) is one of the pathogenic fungi on wheat, caused stripe rust that is a great threat for wheat production all over the world. Intensive efforts have been made to study genetics of wheat resistance to this disease, but…
Emmanuel Oyeniyi Shokefun, Abiodun Emmanuel Ayodele, Akinwunmi Johnson Akinloye
The leaf anatomy of six Microcos L. species belonging to section Eumicrocos in Nigeria was investigated by transverse sectioning of the lamina and examined by light microscope to determine their taxonomic significance in species delimitation and classificatio…
Zhongyu Xie, Nibedita Saha, Caryl Chlan
Many antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been identified in plants. These peptides are highly divergent at the primary sequence level and vary in their hierarchical structures. Some common biochemical features include the ability to form disulfide bonds, tande…
Abedaljasim M. Jasim Al-Jibouri, Ashwaq S. Abed, Abdal-Jabbar Abass Ali, Duha M. Majeed
A great mullein ( Verbascum thapsus L.) was a famous species in Scrophulariaceae family. It was generally used as herbal medicine. Explants of V. thapsus (leaves and petioles) were cultured in vitro on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium for shoot proliferation.P…
Fadila Moussaoui, Tajelmolk Alaoui, Saadia Aoudry
An ethnobotanical survey was conducted in the city of Meknès over a period of two years, from 2009 to 2011 with 1000 people (615 women, 385 men). Through the questionnaire, schedules were established to collect information on the use of therapeutic medicinal…
Reena Grittle Pinhero, Rong Tsao, Qiang Liu, James Alan Sullivan, Benoit Bizimungu, Rickey Y. Yada
The effects of processing and genotype (fourteen early potato varieties) were evaluated for their phytochemicals, total phenolics (TPC), total flavonoids (TFC), total anthocyanins (TAC), antioxidant activities measured by ORAC, FRAP and DPPH assays and protei…
Nader Soltani, Christy Shropshire, Peter H. Sikkema
Nine field trials (five with PPI and four with PRE herbicides) were conducted at Exeter and Ridgetown, Ontario during 2013 to 2015 to determine if the tolerance of white bean to preplant incorporated (PPI) and preemergence (PRE) herbicides is influenced by th…
Janet Too, John Wanyoko, Thomas Kinyanjui, Kelvin Moseti, Francis Wachira
A study was carried out to quantitatively estimate the L-theanine content in 19 teas commercially available in the Kenyan market by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). The test tea samples analyzed were green ( n = 4), black ( n = 8) and flavored (…
Mohammed El-Sayed El-Mahrouk, Yaser Hassan Dewir
The present study reports the physico-chemical properties of four compost based squeezed grape fruit wastes (SGFW) consisting of 60% SGFW + 40% chicken manure (including sawdust) (CMS) ( v/v ), 80% SGFW + 20% bean hay (BH) ( v/v ), 80% SGFW + 20% chicken manu…
Ramesh Prasad Bhatt, Sarala Bhatt
Forest and vegetation of particular ecosystem is generally influenced by external factors especially from development activities. Nepal has been endowed with an immense variety of forest resources with its unique biodiversity. The current study is conducted i…
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