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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…
Saripah Salbiah Syed Abdul Azziz, Munirah Abdul Talip, Chee Fah Wong, Hasimah Alimon, Norlaili Abu Bakar, Wan Rusmawati Wan Mahamod, Rozita Yahaya, Mohamad Syahrizal Ahmad, Yusnita Juahir
Preservatives are usually added to food products to ensure longer shelf life and prevent decomposition process and microbial growth. However, synthetic food preservatives can also give negative side effect to health and are harmful to human and animal physiol…
Issah A. Abukari, Mark W. Shankle, K. Raja Reddy
The <i> S </i> -metolachlor is used to control/suppress yellow nutsedge, annual grasses, and several broadleaf weeds in sweetpotato. However, when used under adverse environmental conditions, it may lead to crop injury. Information is limited on the effect of…
Ronaldo Liberato Dourado, Alexandre Lima de Souza, Anderson de Moura Zanine, Fabio Luiz Buranelo Toral, Daniele de Jesus Ferreira, Joadil Gonçalves de Abreu
Piat ã grass (Brachiaria brizantha cv. Piat ã ) is a tropical grass cultivating in pasture production system. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of nitrogen levels (0, 125, 250, 375 and 500 kg · N · ha <sup>-1</sup> ) on…
Renata Vianna Lima, Almy Junior Cordeiro de Carvalho, Paulo Cesar Santos, Jalille Amim Altoé Freitas, Mírian Peixoto Soares da Silva, Silvio de Jesus Freitas, Marta Simone Mendonça Freitas
This paper was developed in order to verify the influence of nitrogen fertilization and different genotypes in the nutritional aspect and in the production of total phenols in passifloraceae. The experimental design was randomized blocks in a 5 × 2 × 2 factor…
Shinji Takahashi, Susumu Kawakami, Sachiko Sugimoto, Katsuyoshi Matsunami, Hideaki Otsuka
From the branches of <i>Tabebuia chrysotricha </i> (Bignoniaceae), two lignan glycosides (1, 2) and two phenolic compound glycosides (3, 4) were isolated, along with 15 known compounds (5 - 19). The structures of the new compounds were elucidated on the basis…
Lucilene Fernandes Silva, Maria das Graças Cardoso, Luís Roberto Batista, Marcos de Souza Gomes, Leonardo Milani Avelar Rodrigues, Danúbia A. de Carvalho Selvati Rezende, Maria Luisa Teixeira, Marcos Schleiden Sousa Carvalho, Juliana de Andrade Santiago, David Lee Nelson
The essential oils from <i> Mentha viridis </i> L. and <i> Mentha pulegium </i> L. were characterized by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS). These oils were obtained by hydrodistillation and presented linalool (40.70%), carvone (13.52%) a…
Gulzar Akhtar, Ahsan Akram, Yasar Sajjad, Rashad Mukhtar Balal, Muhammad Adnan Shahid, Hasan Sardar, Kaleem Naseem, Shahid Masood Shah
Rosa centifolia is grown for its flowers which are used for essential oil extraction. It is vegetatively propagated through its cuttings which are difficult to root. This study was designed to increase the rooting percentage of cuttings by applying plant grow…
Sebastião Vinícius Batista Brinate, Wagner Nunes Rodrigues, Lima Deleon Martins, Tafarel Victor Colodetti, Marcelo Antonio Tomaz, José Francisco Teixeira do Amaral
There are different methods to determinate leaf area in coffee plants; however, methodologies that allow measurement of leaf area accurately and in nondestructive ways are very important, as they are less economically costly and enable measurements on the sam…
Eric Lasserre, T. S. Ko, John M. Dyer, Norimoto Murai
The major seed storage protein phaseolin of common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is deficient in methionine, an essential amino acid for human and animal health. To improve the nutritional quality of common bean, we designed methionine enhancement of phaseoli…
Md. Ali Akbar Hossain, Md. Selim Hossain, Kaniz Fatema, Benazir Ahmed Siddique, Hanif Sikder, Md. Sohel Sarker, Preeti Jain
In this study, in vitro antioxidant activity, total phenolic content and concentration of flavonoids of four different extracts of <i>Adina cordifolia</i> (Roxb.) were determined using spectrophotometric methods. Antioxidant activity of extracts was expressed…
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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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