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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…
Qinzhi Yu, Congyao Liang, Xianyu Wang, Yongcheng Du, Masaharu Masuda, Kenji Murakami
To accelerate the breeding process, male sterile line is used to leave out the troublesome procedures of the artificial emasculation in tomato breeding. However, the fertility of the pollen thermo-sensitivity male sterile line (PTMSL) and the stigma exsertion…
Toshiyuki Shibata, 1 1, Kohki Nagayama, 1 1, Shingo Sugiura, 1 1, Saki Makino, 1 1, Mitsuyoshi Ueda, 1 1, Yutaka Tamaru
The composition and antioxidative properties of crude phlorotannins isolated from Japanese Eisenia and Ecklonia species including cultured E. kurome were analyzed. As a result of liquid chromatography mass spectrometry analysis, it was suggested that the phlo…
Sophie Sanchez-Ferandin, 1 1
Nowadays, microalgae are particularly used to assess the environmental impact of contaminants in aquatic systems. Naturally present in some algal species, bioluminescence is highly used in application fields related to environmental monitoring. Bioluminescent…
Jorge G. Lozano-Orozco, 1 1, Abel Sentíes, Olivier De Clerck, Kurt M. Dreckmann, Jhoana Díaz-Larrea
During a molecular characterization of the genus Dictyota J. V. Lamouroux (Phaeophyceae, Dictyotales) along the Mexican coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican Caribbean, using psbA and cox1 genes, it was found that two particular collections did not mat…
Chandrasekharan Nair Aneesh, Ajit Haridas, Vattackatt Balakrishnan Manilal
Most of the microalgae present in aquatic systems competed for the same available inorganic nutrients. The successful competitors would eventually dominate the rest because of their adaptive advantageous. Based on this premise, it was important to understand…
Chandrasekharan Nair Aneesh, Faisal Mullalayam, Vattackatt Balakrishnan Manilal, Ajit Haridas
The goal of this study was to develop a self-settling microalgal consortium in raceway pond reactor (RPR). Experiments were carried out with cultures that developed without additional seeding, but naturally promoted by process conditions in a raceway pond rea…
Marina F. Dorokhova, Natalia E. Kosheleva, Elena V. Terskaya
Algal-cyanobacterial communities, soil nano- and microfauna, and mycelium of micromycetes were studied in soils of an administrative district of Moscow. To characterize the habitat conditions of microbiota in the soils of different functional zones of the cit…
Kookal Santhoshkumar, Santhakumaran Prasanthkumar, Joseph George Ray
Green algae represent the fastest producible source of biomass that has diverse uses as biofuel, food, feed-stocks and the like. The biomass is rich in oils, which can be used as biofuel and the cultivation may be used to purify water as well. Productivity an…
Alena D. Firsova, Anna Yu Bessudova, Larisa M. Sorokovikova, Irina V. Tomberg, Yelena V. Likhoshway
According to the results of studies in the region of lower Yenisei River to the Kara Sea shelf in September 2009, the flora of chrysophyte algae in the zone of river and sea water mixing comprises 43 species of the classes Chrysophyceae and Synurophyceae. Mos…
Roberto Avendaño, Elmer García Díaz, Marta Valdez-Melara, Nefertiti Chaves Solano, Aníbal Mora Villalobos, Francisco Aguilar Cascante, Bruce Williamson Benavides, Laura Y. Solís-Ramos
The genetic diversity from species of the genus Jatropha collected from Costa Rica was analyzed by AFLP (amplified fragments length polymorphism). The study consisted of 114 accessions from 15 populations of 4 different species: J. curcas, J. costaricensis, J…
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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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