ArticlesArchiveAboutEditorial BoardAuthor Guidelines
Call for papersThe 2026 special issue on Climate & Health is open for submissions.Learn more
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…
Paraskevi Yfanti, Anna Batistatou, Georgios Manos, Marilena E. Lekka
S. horvatii ssp. macrophylla (Lamiaceae) is an endemic aromatic plant of Greece and is used as a culinary herb. In the present study we explored its possible anticancer activity through the induction of apoptosis on cancer cells using A549 cell line as a mode…
Shin Egawa, Mitsuru Hattori, Takao Itino
Floral size is potentially influenced by local pollinators’ body size. As pollinator fauna and size often change with elevation, correlation between elevational variation of pollinator size and floral size is expected. We investigated the variation of floral…
Gabriel Ddamulira, Carlos Antonio Fernandes Santos, Peter Obuo, Mildred Alanyo, Charles Kasozi Lwanga
Twenty nine cowpea genotypes, including four Ugandan genotypes, were evaluated for grain yield, protein stability and adaptability under diverse environments in a randomized complete block design with three replications. The analysis showed that cowpea grain…
Edna Maria Bonfim-Silva, Ellen Cristina Alves de Anicésio, Jakeline Rosa de Oliveira, Helon Hébano de Freitas Sousa, Tonny José Araújo da Silva
Safflower ( <i> Carthamus tinctorius </i> L.) is a promising culture to be widespread in Brazil. However, the lack of basic knowledge about cultivation techniques, such as water demand by the culture, is still obstacle to the expansion of safflower in that co…
Tahir Atıcı
A new species, Trochiscia hamzaoglui Atici sp. nova, determined from freshwater habitat, Kesik-k?prü Dam Lake on the Kizilirmak River (Kirsehir, Central Anatolia), and the sample was taken from plankton. This new species was first found in the study of algal…
Gabriela Rezende Costa, Nilton de Oliveira Couto e Silva, José Marcos Gontijo Mandarino, Rodrigo Santos Leite, Nilson César Castanheira Guimarães, Roberto Gonçalves Junqueira, Renata Adriana Labanca
The objective of this study was to evaluate the differences in composition among six brands of conventional soybean and six genetically modified cultivars (GM). We focused on the isoflavones profile and mineral content questioning the substantial equivalence…
Mukhtar Ahmed, Farkhanda Jabeen, Muhammad Ali, Zarnab Ahmad, Fayyaz Ahmed, Muhammad Bilal Sarwar, Salah ud Din, Mubbashir Hassan, Shah Jahan
Bifenthrin is an insecticide which is used to control insects, mites, and ticks. It poses a solemn en-vironmental threat and health risk to living organisms. It may be bioaccumulated or biomagnified at different trophic levels in the food chain by biota. Micr…
Ryoko Machida-Hirano, Moisés Cortés-Cruz, Blanca Amalia Amaro González, Jorge Cadena Íñiguez, Kazuto Shirata, Kazuo N. Watanabe
Chayote [ <i> Sechium edule </i> (Jacq.) Sw.] is an economically important species in Latin America; however, there are very few reports available regarding its genetic diversity. Out of 11 microsatellite markers isolated, 10 loci provided 1 to 7 alleles per…
Nikhil K. Chrungoo, Ayam Gangarani Devi
Starch granules isolated from different accessions of rice from North East India showed a typical polygonal morphology with size ranging from 3.4 ± 0.8 μm to 6.4 ± 1.2 μm. The apparent amylose content (AAC) of the granules varied from 1.9% to 28.33%. Our resu…
Akash Pradhan, Nupur Naik, Khirod Kumar Sahoo
RNAi mediated gene silencing demonstrated to serve as a defence mechanism against abiotic stress. Some endogenous small RNAs (microRNA and siRNA) have emerged as important players in plant abiotic stress response. Drought and salinity are the major environmen…
No articles in this issue.
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.
Authors submit their manuscript, metadata, and declarations through the portal. There is no submission fee.
The editorial office screens the manuscript for scope, completeness, and formatting before assigning a handling editor.
At least two independent reviewers evaluate the manuscript under single-blind review. Where revisions are required, authors respond point by point.
On acceptance the article processing charge is invoiced and the CC BY 4.0 copyright handover is signed.
The article is copyedited, typeset, and given a DOI, then publishes open access with a permanent link.
Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration elsewhere. Submit in Microsoft Word or LaTeX with figures at 300 dpi minimum. Structure research articles as Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and References.
Use the journal's numbered (Vancouver) reference style. Cite sources consecutively in the order they appear, and ensure every reference is complete and retrievable.
Declare all funding sources, conflicts of interest, and ethical approvals (including informed consent and animal-care statements where applicable).