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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…
Kossi Adjonou, Yaovi Nuto, Paul P. Bosu, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Adzo Dzifa Kokutse, Kouami Kokou
West African tropical forests spread from Senegal to Togo. They are considered as one of the world biodiversity hotspots. But these forests are disappearing very quickly because of human activities. In Togo, tropical forests degradation has been increased sin…
Julius Yeboah, Ben Kwaku Branoh Banful, Peter Yaw Boateng, Frank Manu Amoah, Bonaventure Kissinger Maalekuu, Samuel Tetteh Lowor
Shea tree ( Vitellaria paradoxa Gaertn. Family; Sapotaceae) indigenous to the Sudano-sahelian zone of Africa has great economic and ecological potential and attributes. Commercial cultivation of the tree is however, hampered by the poor rooting success of its…
Vitus Ikechukwu Obi, Juan Jose Barriuso-Vargas
Plant extracts have long been used in commercial agriculture as anti-microbial tools in food safety applications. These offer growers and agrobiologists many unique benefits which include their eco-friendliness. This work reviews the situation of Biofungicide…
G. Mamba-Mbayi, P. Tshilenge-Djim, K. K. Nkongolo, A. Kalonji-Mbuyi
Cassava bacterial blight (CBB) caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. manihotis has been reported in several African countries since 1970. Knowledge of the virulence and diversity of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. manihotis strains is important for an integrated co…
Maria Luisa Teixeira, Maria das G. Cardoso, Ana Cristina S. Figueiredo, Jair C. Moraes, Franscinely A. Assis, Juliana de Andrade, David L. Nelson, Marcos de Souza Gomes, Josefina Aparecida de Souza, Luiz Roberto Marques de Albuquerque
This work describes the chemical composition of the essential oils extracted from fresh leaves of Lippia origanoides Kunth. and Mentha spicata L. and their antioxidant and insecticidal activities. The essential oils were extracted by steam distillation using…
Gyu Hwan Park, Jin-Hee Kim, Kyung-Min Kim
In this study, only two of 12 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) affecting yield and yield components were identified in a single year, indicating that individual QTLs are probably sensitive to the environment. A rice growth survey of “Cheongcheong” and “Nag dong…
Li Sim Ho, Anusha Nair, Hirzun Mohd Yusof, Harikrishna Kulaveerasingam, Mohamad Sanusi Jangi
Oil palm drupe which has thick fleshy mesocarp contains rich oil, where storage of oil in it can make up to 80% of its dry mass [1] . Ongoing research interest in oil palms has been focused on the mechanisms of oil production in oil palm drupes, while investi…
Jyotsana Singh, Padmalochan Hembram, Jolly Basak
Population explosion in the last decades together with global industrialization has caused heavy-metal contamination of air, water and soil, resulting in diverse incurable effects on humans and on the stability of the ecosystem. Non-biodegradable heavy-metals…
Mohammed S. Ali-Shtayeh, Rana M. Jamous, Salam Y. Abu Zaitoun, Omar B. Mallah, Ayat Kh. Mubaslat
Analysis of differentiation (genetic diversity and related relationships) among 22 landrace ( Ficus carica L. sativa ) and 2 wild form ( F. carica L. caprificus ) accessions of fig growing under the same environmental conditions in the Palestinian Fig Collect…
Kumar G. Patil, V. Jaishree, H. N. Poornachandra Tejaswi
The present study was aimed to investigate the phenolic content and antioxidant property of Crossandra infundibuliformis leaves. Shade dried leaves were successively extracted and determined phenolic and flavonol content of the extracts . Six different in vit…
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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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