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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…
Fanghe Zhu, Jingluan Han, Shumei Liu, Xiaoping Chen, Rajeev K. Varshney, Xuanqiang Liang
Resveratrol synthase (RS) is a key enzyme that plays a critical role in the resveratrol synthesis pathway. In this study, six RS genes were isolated and characterized from peanut variety “Zhenzhu Hong” by silico cloning and RT-PCR. Bioinformatics analysis sho…
Hrishikesh Upadhyaya, Soumitra Shome, Deboshri Roy, Mrinal Kanti Bhattacharya
Arsenic is a great hazard to the environment since it is a major source of soil and water contami-nation leading to phytotoxicity. Arsenic caused reduction in seed germination and growth of plants including mung bean (Vigna radiata) causing loss of crop produ…
Grisel Ponciano, Grace Q. Chen
Kazakh dandelion (Taraxacum kok-saghyz, Tk) is a rubber-producing plant currently being investigated as a source of natural rubber for industrial applications. Like many other isoprenoids, rubber is a downstream product of the mevalonate pathway. The 3-hydrox…
Daniela Mota Segantini, Sarita Leonel, Adriana de Castro Correia da Silva, Rafael Augusto Ferraz, Ana Karolina da Silva Ripardo
Peach trees are temperate climate fruit trees most planted in subtropical and tropical regions. This advance of the peach crop is mainly due to the introduction of less cold-demanding new cultivar varieties and which require using less specific techniques, su…
Caio Antonio Carbonari, Giovanna Larissa Gimenes Cotrick Gomes, Edivaldo Domingues Velini, Renato Fernandes Machado, Plinio Saulo Simões, Gabrielle de Castro Macedo
Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world. In sugarcane, it is used as a herbicide when applied at its field rate, but it is also used as ripener when applied as low doses. However, the effects of glyphosate on plant metabolism and sugarcane g…
C. B. Rajashekar, Kwang-Hyun Baek
Bean seeds ( Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. Tendergreen) were imbibed in water to examine the effects of hypoxia during imbibition and subsequent germination. Hypoxic conditions occurred when seeds were imbibed in water for 24 h or longer and resulted in severe re…
Rohan Rajapakse, Annesha Basu, Sanam Shahid, Michael P. Timko
Smokeless tobacco (ST), an alternative to smoking, has gained wide popularity among tobacco users. This study is conducted to determine the time course of gene expression associated with specific signaling pathways in human oral epithelial cells after exposur…
Christiane Maria de Oliveira, Maria das Graças Cardoso, Ana Cristina da Silva Figueiredo, Maria Laene Moreira de Carvalho, Cíntia Alvarenga Santos Fraga de Miranda, Luiz Roberto Marques Albuquerque, David Lee Nelson, Marcos de Souza Gomes, Lucilene Fernandes Silva, Juliana de Andrade Santiago, Maria Luisa Teixeira, Rafaela Magalhães Brandão
The extraction of essential oils was performed by using the technique of hydrodistillation modified Clevenger apparatus, identification and quantification of the constituents was achieved by Gas Chromatography coupled to Mass Spectrometry, and Gas Chromatogra…
Tatiane Vieira Braga, Rosana Gonçalves Rodrigues das Dores, Camila Soncin Ramos, Fernanda Cristina Gontijo Evangelista, Letícia Márcia da Silva Tinoco, Fernando de Pilla Varotti, Maria das Graças Carvalho, Adriano de Paula Sabino
Psidium guajava L. has extensive use in folk medicine. The aim of this study was to quantify the levels of phenolic, flavonoids, antioxidant activity, leathality assay and antibacterial and antitumoral activities of the extract of P. guajava. In the dry guava…
Prakash Bhattarai, Bikram Pandey, Raj Kumar Gautam, Rita Chhetri
Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D. Don) Soo, commonly known as “Panchaunle”, is an important medicinal plant species distributed throughout the Himalaya region. The present work was conducted in order to assess its availability in natural habitats because of its medi…
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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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