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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…
Sayed Farag, Oliver Kayser
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) derivatives are used clinically as analgesic, anti-inflammatory, appetite stimulant, anti-emetic and anti-tumor cannabinoids. THC and its related compounds are at present obtained by extraction from intact Cannabis plants or chemica…
Fernanda Maria Rodrigues Castro, Adriano Teodoro Bruzi, José Airton Rodrigues Nunes, Rafael Augusto Costa Parrella, Gabrielle Maria Romeiro Lombardi, Carlos Juliano Brant Albuquerque, Maurício Lopes
The biomass sorghum [ Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench], is an interesting crop considering the necessity to invest in alternative sources to generate renewable energy. The objective of this experiment was to identify sorghum biomass genotypes with greatest agrono…
Valeria Carpentieri-Pipolo, Leones Alves de Almeida, Romeu Afonso de Souza Kiihl
Color is one of the phenotypic markers mostly used to study soybean ( <i> Glycine max </i> L. Merr.) in the study of genetic, molecular and biochemical processes, due to their easy recognizability. The genetic control of several soybean natural variants has n…
Parisa Aghazadeh, Behrooz Shahsavan Behboodi
Zhumeria majdae is a medicinal plant and endemic of Iran that is being threatened to extinction. The present investigation to preserve this relict species, was conducted to study of: 1) different treatments effect on seeds germination: a) in vivo , b) in vitr…
Suboot Hairat, Paramjit Khurana
Climate change is expected to unleash severe and frequent heat waves in future, adversely affecting crop productivity. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of two separate episodes of heat stress, mimicking heat wave conditions on the physiology of…
Dickson Kalabamu Xavery, Tileye Feyissa
The African Sandalwood plant ( <i> Osyris lanceolata </i> ) is a threatened shrub or a small hemi-parasitic tree endemic to East Africa and South African regions, which is being severely affected by uprooting for oil extraction, poor natural regeneration, phe…
Abel Henrique Santos Gomes, Lucia Helena Garófalo Chaves, Hugo Orlando Carvallo Guerra
One of the difficulties in the implementation of agroenergy’s cropping is the growing area competition with subsistence crops. Few studies have been conducted to show the efficiency of intercropping between plants of energy’s potential with cultures of econom…
Jean Carlos Bettoni, Murilo Dalla Costa, João Peterson Pereira Gardin, Aike Anneliese Kretzchmar, Juliana Aparecida Souza
The micropropation is an important biotechnological tool for obtaining and maintaining mother vine plants with high quality plant health. The objective was to evaluate the establishment and multiplication in vitro and ex vitro acclimatization of grape genotyp…
Ichiro Kasajima, Noriyuki Suetsugu, Masamitsu Wada, Kentaro Takahara, 1 1, 1 1
Chlorophyll fluorescence parameters such as Fv / Fm , NPQ and ΦII (YII) are widely used to estimate the fitness and photosynthetic activity of plant leaves and non-photochemical dissipation of excessive excitation energy in photosystem II. The effect of chlor…
Esmeralda González-Gallegos, Elan Laredo-Alcalá, Juan Ascacio-Valdés, Diana Jasso de Rodríguez, Francisco Daniel Hernández-Castillo
An alternative to the use of chemical fungicides is to enhance the defensive response of plants by appropriate stimulation, a phenomenon known as induction of resistance. The aim of this study was to determine the changes of endogen levels of salicylic acid (…
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