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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…
Jing Yin, Hongsi Ma, Yuan Gong, Jialei Xiao, Lichao Jiang, Yaguang Zhan, Chunxiao Li, Chunlin Ren, Yuanbiao Yang
In this study, we investigated the effect of different types of light and MeJA treatment on the accumulation of betulin and oleanolic acid in various organs of white birch. Our results showed that betulin and oleanolic were accumulated mainly in the stalk ski…
Mohammad Alimohammadi, Nawab Ali, Mariya Khodakovskaya
Inositol phosphates are essential for cell development and signaling in all living organisms. Inositol hexakisphosphate (InsP 6 ) is the most abundant phosphoinositol in both plants and animals. While the concentration of inorganic phosphorous (Pi) is often l…
Bhagirath S. Chauhan, Jhoana L. Opeña
The demand for corn is increasing in Asia for feed and biofuel. It is grown in the rice-corn cropping system. During harvest of corn, however, seeds drop on the soil surface and become problems as volunteer corn seedlings in the subse quent dry-seeded rice cr…
Erin Redding, Ivan Fernandez, Michael Day, G. Bruce Wiersma
Annual developmental events in biological systems are dependent, in part, on environmental conditions and can be valuable bio-indicators of environmental change. Many studies have been done on the effects of temperature and pho toperiod on phenophases, but fe…
Irene R. Tanzo, Edwin C. Martin, Bhagirath S. Chauhan
A study was undertaken in February 2012 to understand the knowledge and practices of rice farmers about weedy rice in two municipalities of Iloilo, Philippines. The specific objectives of the study were to establish what rice farmers know about weedy rice, ex…
Tuyen Pham Nguyen Kim, Nga Vo Thi, Phuong Tran Van, Phuong Quach Ngo Diem, Duong Ngo Thi Thuy, Quang Ton That, Phung Nguyen Kim Phi
Two triterpenoid saponins, 6, 7, together with five known compounds were isolated from the roots of Arachis hypogea L. collected in Vietnam. Their structures were established by spectroscopic analysis (1D, 2D NMR and HRMS) as well as by comparison with those…
Marielle Cascaes Inácio, Fabio Carmona, Tiago Antunes Paz, Maysa Furlan, Fernando Arcanjo da Silva, Bianca Waléria Bertoni, Suzelei de Castro França, Ana Maria Soares Pereira
Plants are a rich source of antibiotics, but screening all the existing plant species for biological activity using current methods can be time and resource consuming. The present study is to investigate whether powdered plant materials would perform as well…
Filemon Elisante, Mokiti T. Tarimo, Patrick A. Ndakidemi
Pot experiment was carried out to determine the allelopathic effects of Datura stramonium on leaf chlorophyll content, root and shoot elongation, fresh and dry weight of two wild plant species : Cenchrus ciliaris and Neonotonia wightii . Different concentrati…
Arne B. Hückstädt, A. Suthaparan, L. M. Mortensen, H. R. Gislerød
If low night temperatures can be combined with high day temperatures, providing optimal growth conditions for plants, a significant energy saving can be achieved in greenhouses. Lowering the night temperature from 18 ° C to 10 ° C- 11 ° C for 8 h had no negat…
Sandra da Costa Preisigke, Adryellison Lemes de Campos, Nadsley Seraglio Souza, Leonarda Grillo Neves, Marco Antonio Aparecido Barelli, Petterson Baptista da Luz, Kelly Lana Araújo, Severino de Paiva Sobrinho
Mangifera indica (mango) is a typically tropical fruit with considerable economic value. Brazil features a wide variety of cultivars of this fruit, most of which are known under several different names. Indeed, the nomenclature of mango varieties is still qui…
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