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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…
Mettu Madhavi Reddy, Kandasamy Ulaganathan
Nitrogen is the most important macronutrient needed for plant growth and development. The availability of nitrogen in the soil fluctuates greatly in both time and space. Crop plants, except leguminous plants, depend on supply of nitrogen as fertilizers. Large…
Xinwei Chen, 1 1, Yuxiao Liu, Hongmei Liu, Hui Wang, Dianlin Yang, 1 1, Chaohe Huangfu, 1 1
Invasive Asteraceae are an important group of plants and might have universal impacts on invaded ecosystems. However, research data on the ecological impacts of specific plants are still lacking. Chromolaena odorata, Ageratina adenophora, Flaveria bidentis, a…
Yvonne Künzi, Daniel Prati, Markus Fischer, Steffen Boch
Invasions by exotic plant species and their impacts on invaded communities are a highly topical field of research because it provides a basis for the management of neophyte populations. However, for many invasive neophyte species in Central Europe little is k…
Danúbia Magalhães Soares, André R. Terra Nascimento, Lorena Cunha Silva, Gastão Viégas de Pinho Júnior
Veredas are regarded as humid complexes of ecological, water and scenery significance in Cerrado biome related to water table outcrop. Direct alterations in these environments can lead to species diversity reduction and also facilitate biological invasion pro…
Giuliana I. Cruz-Trejo, 1 1, Silvia E. Ibarra-Obando, Luis E. Aguilar-Rosas, Miriam Poumian-Tapia, Elena Solana-Arellano
To describe the annual cycle of Sargassum horneri in Mexican waters, we selected two sites differing in their degree of wave exposure and sediment type: Rincón de Ballenas (RB), and Rancho Packard (RP). From June 2009 to April 2010 we followed the seasonal ch…
Prasanna H. Gowda, P. V. Vara Prasad, Sangamesh V. Angadi, Umesh M. Rangappa, Pradeep Wagle
In the Southern High Plains, dairies are expanding to take advantage of favorable climatic conditions. Currently, corn (Zea mays L.) and forage sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] are the two major crops grown in the region to meet silage demands for the ex…
Laura Y. Solís-Ramos, Marta Valdez-Melara, Ricardo Alvarado-Barrantes, Floribeth Mora-Umaña, Eduardo Hernández-Jiménez, Natalia Barboza-Vargas, Pilar Ramírez-Fonseca
The present investigation was undertaken to study the effect of gamma irradiation (dose from 10 to 100 Gy) and in vitro selection with fungus filtrate as selecting agent (concentration from 20% to 100%) on the susceptibility of the common bean to Rhizoctonia…
Christiane Maria de Oliveira, Maria das Graças Cardoso, Marisa Ionta, Marisi Gomes Soares, Juliana de Andrade Santiago, Guilherme Álvaro Ferreira da Silva, Maria Luisa Teixeira, Danúbia Aparecida de Carvalho Selvati Rezende, Rafaela Vieira de Souza, Luana Isac Soares, David Lee Nelson, Marcos Schleiden Sousa Carvalho
The objective of this study was to characterize and verify the in vitro antitumor activity of essential oils (EOs) extracted from the leaves and flowers of Callistemon viminalis. The EOs were extracted by hydrodistillation using a modified Clevenger apparatus…
Charles M. Geddes, Andrea Cavalieri, Fouad Daayf, Robert H. Gulden
Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth.) has been recognized as a good candidate for weed suppressive mulch in organic no-till cropping systems. In our study, the allelopathic potential of hairy vetch, fall rye (Secale cereale L.) and winter wheat (Triticum aestivum…
Tomomi Kakita, Ayami Abe, Takashi Ikeda
Grafting is widely established in agriculture and provides practical advantages for vegetable production. We investigated physiological differences between the grafted combinations of Dutch (Starbuck and Maxifort) and Japanese (Reiyo, Receive and Magnet) toma…
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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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