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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…
Malay K. Bhowmick, Madhab C. Dhara, Sudhanshu Singh, Manzoor H. Dar, Uma S. Singh
Flash flood or submergence is a common phenomenon in rice growing rainfed lowland areas that seriously affects crop establishment leading to severe yield losses. A few submergence - tolerant rice varieties have been developed by introgressing SUB 1 gene into…
Akhtar H. Khan, Ashok K. Singh, Mubeen  , Sudhanshu Singh, Najam W. Zaidi, Uma S. Singh, Stephan M. Haefele
Sodic soils have immense productivity potential, if managed through proper technology interventions. Biocompost is prepared by composting pressmud (a sugar industry byproduct) received from cane juice filtration and spent wash received from distilleries throu…
D. S. Vijaya Chitra, Bhaskarrao Chinthapalli, G. Padmaja
Shoot meristems used for the study w ere exercised from the in vitro regenerated shoots cultured on MS medium supplemented with 0.5 mg/L of BAP for multiplication. The sensitivity of the in vitro regenerated was studied using shoot meristems of 0.5 cm. Shoot…
Andrea Andrade, Ana Vigliocco, Sergio Alemano, Analía Llanes, Guillermina Abdala
Water stress is likely the most important factor that adversely affects plant growth and development. In our study two inbred lines of sunflower ( Helianthus annuus L.) with contrasting behavior to water deficit, the inbred lines B59, sensitive, and B71, tole…
Bishnu Bilas Adhikari, Biswarup Mehera, Stephan Haefele
To help farmers in the mid hills of Nepal improve their crop management and rice yields, we conducted a study testing different nursery management options and their effect on grain yield and yield components under rainfed conditions. The experiment was conduc…
Adriana Sacco, Barbara Greco, Antonio Di Matteo, Rosalba De Stefano, Amalia Barone
Water deficit strongly affects plant yield and quality. However, plants can minimize drought injury by adaptation mechanisms that have evolved to escape harmful conditions. The response to water deprivation is a complex trait controlled by several genes. In o…
Rout Nutan Prasad, Khandual Sanghamitra, Gutierrez-Mora Antonia, Gallardo-Valdéz Juan, Rodriguez-Garay Benjamin, Ibarra-Montoya J. Luis, Vega-Valero Guillermo
Spirulina is an edible algae and has a wide range of pharmaceutical applications in addition to its nutritional value. Isolation and identification of several Spirulina species were conducted in the western part of Mexico especially in the state of Jalisco. T…
Olga N. Selivanova, Galina G. Zhigadlova
An additional morphological criterion is presented to distinguish vegetative samples of the genera Yendonia and Mika miella (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta). The undescribed earlier feature of Y. crassifolia is the presence of abundant light refracting cells in t…
Jose C. Jimenez-Lopez, Maria C. Hernandez-Soriano
Olive ( Olea europaea L.) tree is one of the most extensive and important agricultural crop in Mediterranean countries due to its beneficial health and nutritional properties and its high economic value. Currently, olive tree constitutes the sixth most import…
Jason Goldman
Fertile, advanced generation hybrids derived from crosses between Texas ( Poa arachnifera Torr.) and Kentucky ( Poa pratensis L.) bluegrass have been selected. The hybrids are currently being evaluated for low-input turf potential. Since they are derived from…
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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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