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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…
Munguatosha Ngomuo, Emerald Mneney, Patrick A. Ndakidemi
Banana is an important food crop and the second most important fruit crop. Despite the significant commercial value of the crop, the main production constrain is the availability of reliable and safe planting material. The planting materials obtained through…
Eduardo Stefani Pagliosa, Valeria Carpentieri-Pipolo, Deoclécio Domingos Garbuglio, Thiago Henrique Oro, Karla Bianca de Almeida Lopes, Claudemir Zucareli
This study aimed to detect genotypic differences in the resistance to sprouting of wheat grains, evaluate the effectiveness of different methods for inducing sprouting and identify, using repeatability estimates, the minimum number of spikes necessary for the…
Prashant Jha, Jason K. Norsworthy, Josefina Garcia
An artificial seed bank study was conducted at Pendleton, SC, USA, to investigate the persistence of Palmer amaranth seeds buried uniformly across a 10-cm depth in soil inside polyvinyl chloride (PVC) cylindrical pipes over 4 years. The experiment was conduct…
Liang Song, Wenyao Liu, Yongjiang Zhang, Zhenghong Tan, Su Li, Jinhua Qi, Yuanlin Yao
The consequences of sharp rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO 2 ]) and global warming on vascular plants have raised great concerns, but researches focusing on non-vascular epiphytes remain sparse. We transplanted nine common cryptogamic epi…
Neeraj Jain, Ganesh B. Patil, Poonam Bhargava, Rajani S. Nadgauda
In recent years, Jatropha curcas L. has gained popularity as a potential biodiesel plant. The varying oil content, reported between accessions belonging to different agroclimatic zones, has necessitated the assessment of the existing genetic variability to ge…
Asif Khan, Muhammad Sharif, Amjad Ali, Syed Noor Muhammad Shah, Ishaq Ahmad Mian, Fazli Wahid, Bismillah Jan, Muhammad Adnan, Shah Nawaz, Nisar Ali
A pot experiment was conducted to determine the potential of AM fungi in phytoremediation of heavy metals and its effect on yield of wheat crop. The experiment was conducted in CR Design with four replications during rabi 2012-13. Data showed no increase in g…
Katalin Náfrádi, Pál Sümegi, Gusztáv Jakab, Gergő Persaits, Tünde Törőcsik
Sedimentary basins such as Lake Baláta in Southwestern Hungary provide information about the development of lake-bog systems, the climate change through time and the environment of the surrounding area. The present study provides combined palynological, anthr…
Apurba Kanti Choudhury, Md Abdul Karim, Md Moynul Haque, Qazi Abdul Khaliq, Jalal Uddin Ahmed, Mohammad Mofazzal Hossain
Two tolerant (BB24 and BB43) and two susceptible (BARI busbean-2 and BB04) genotypes of common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) were evaluated for their water status and its relationship with reproductive responses under continuous water stress (50% field capaci…
Leiv M. Mortensen
The effect of different constant air temperatures (18°C, 21°C, 24°C and 27°C) and variable temperatures (24°C/18°C and 27°C/15°C in 12 h/12 h periods) on basil, sage, thyme, lemon balm, cilantro, rosemary, oregano and rocket was studied. Supplementary lightin…
Anjala Pyakurel, Jian R. Wang
Variations in leaf morphology and stomatal characteristics have been extensively studied at both inter- and intraspecific levels although not explicitly in the context of paper birch ( Betula papyrifera Marsh) populations. The birch populations might have dev…
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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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