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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…
Marcos Schleiden Sousa Carvalho, Maria das Graças Cardoso, Luciane Vilela Resende, Marcos de Souza Gomes, Luiz Roberto Marques Albuquerque, Anni Cristini Silvestri Gomes, Thaís Aparecida Sales, Karen Caroline Camargo, David Lee Nelson, Gabriele Mikami Costa, Mariana Araújo Espósito, Luis Felipe Lima e Silva
Unconventional vegetables, in general, are plants that have been largely consumed by the population at some point and, because of changes in eating behavior, now present reduced economic and social expression and have lost ground to other vegetables. The obje…
Vinicius F. Moreira, Ivo J. C. Vieira, Raimundo Braz-Filho
This study is a review of the Condamineeae tribe, through the acquisition of data from phytochemical studies and evaluation of genera activities that constitute the tribe, in order to contribute to chemotaxonomic classification of this tribe in the Rubiaceae…
Fumiya Kurosaki, Syun Hirohashi, Takahiro Katoh, Futoshi Taura, Jung-Bum Lee
Three cDNA clones encoding δ-guaiene synthase, a sesquiterpene cyclase, were isolated from tissue cultures of Aquilaria microcarpa, and data mining analysis of the orthologous genes suggested that 10 and 9 amino acid residues of N- and C-terminal ends of the…
Bihu Huang, Zongbu Yan, 1 1
A new sterile line UP-3s, which carries the Dominant Early Maturity Gene (DEMG), was bred on the farm of University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB). UP-3s and two check sterile lines, Jin23-A and Xie-A which do not carry the Dominant Early Maturity Gene, wer…
Busie E. B. Nsibande, 1 1, Xueyuan Li, Annelie Ahlman, Li-Hua Zhu
The genus Hypoxis contains some of southern Africa’s most important wild medicinal species, a situation that has placed most of them amongst endangered species facing extinction. In this study, four Hypoxis species collected from Swaziland: H. argentea, H. fi…
Dennis C. Gitz III, Zhanguo Xin, Jeffrey T. Baker, Robert J. Lascano, John J. Burke
Two sorghum lines, an erect leafed mutant sorghum and the wild type from which the mutant was generated, were field grown in rectilinear arrays at low (10 plants m -2 ) and high (23 plants m -2 ) population densities. Canopy light interception, biomass accret…
Alfred O. Ubalua, Ahamefula I. Ikpeama, Onyinyechi D. Okeagu
Taro (Colocasia esculenta) and tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) are commonly referred to as cocoyam in Nigeria. They are cherished for their rich taste, nutritional and medicinal properties. Traditionally, cocoyams are vegetatively propagated from tuber frag…
Chitta Ranjan Deb, Sakutemsu L. Jamir, Nangshimeren Sakutemsu Jamir
Paris polyphylla Smith is an important medicinal plant that is considered vulnerable in many parts of the world. The species exhibits poor adaptability to changed environment and susceptible to climatic conditions for reproductive vigor. During the present st…
Zamir K. Punja, Mahfuzur Rahman
A unique symptom of longitudinal red stripes on the surface of one-year-old ginseng roots was studied to determine the morphological and biochemical changes taking place. Light and scanning electron microscopy, measurements of phenolic and mineral element con…
Mustapha Haidar, Elie Shdeed
Two years field and greenhouse studies were carried out to evaluate the efficacy of sub-lethal doses of glyphosate (Round upR), ammonia gas, phosphoric acid and sulfuric acid against Phelipanche aegyptiaca in potato. Results showed that sequential application…
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