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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…
Alexsandro dos Santos Sousa, Evandro José Lima Rego, Francisco de Assis Ribeiro dos Santos
This study aimed to observe the viability of the pollen grains of Malpighia emarginata DC. (West Indian cherry) and the action of a lectin in their germination. Lectins are proteins that specifically interact with carbohydrates, but don’t modify them and bind…
Leal Alejandra, Bilbao Bibiana, Berrío Juan Carlos
The main results of a study of pollen representation in surface soils from different plant communities in the upland sa vannas of Guayana were presented. The representation of savanna herb pollen mainly belonging to the Poaceae and Cy peraceae was high in ope…
Tsutomu Hoshimiya
A photoacoustic (PA) imaging that utilizes acoustic detection of sound generated by a specimen due to the absorption of modulated light was applied to measure the amount of the pollen of the Cryptomeria japonica , Asian allergic plant . High-sensitivity PA im…
Karel Sutorý
The genus Kuschakewiczia , Regel and Smirnov [1] , was described including only one species, K. turkestanica . Later it was joint with the genus Solenanthus , although there are characters (corolla having narrow long lobes, filaments in serted on the corolla…
Morgan Echeverry-Solarte, Victor Ocasio-Ramirez, Annete Figueroa, Eduardo González, Dimuth Siritunga
Cyanogenic glycosides, linamarin and lotaustralin, are presents in all tissues of Cassava ( Manihot esculenta Crantz) except seeds and function as a deterrent for herbivores as well as the translocable form of reduced nitrogen. The genes involved in the cyano…
Richard B. Peterson, Hillar Eichelmann, Vello Oja, Agu Laisk, Eero Talts, Neil P. Schultes
MicroRNA-based gene silencing is a functional genomics tool for a wide range of eukaryotes. As a basis for broader application of virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) to photosynthesis research, we employed a tobacco rattle virus (TRV) vector to silence expres…
Léon Etienne Parent, Serge-Étienne Parent, Valérie Hébert-Gentile, Kristine Naess, Line Lapointe
The “ ionome ” , or plant elemental signature, is the elemental composition of an organisms, tha t may vary with genotypic traits and phenotypic plasticity. Cloudberry ( Rubus chamaemorus L.) is a circumboreal wild berry naturally growing in oligotrophic ocea…
Yuying Wang, Zhilin Li, Liping Huang, Jun Su
The wild Cymbidium lowianum , a national-level rare and endangered species of Orchid, is an excellent garden plant with ornamental flowers with striking, deep red lips in a V-shaped formation. The objective of this study was to estab lish a micropropagation p…
F. O. Amulaka, J. N. Maling’a, R. S. Pathak, M. Cakir, R. M. S. Mulwa
InKenya, Russian wheat aphid (RWA) and stem rust race TTKS (“Ug99”) are the most devastating pests of wheat. Severe infestations by RWA result in yield losses of up to 90% while epidemics of “Ug99”can cause up to 100% loss. The two pests combined have serious…
Z. Y. Zeng, J. Z. Cao, Z. J. Gu, Z. L. Zhang, W. Zheng, Y. Q. Cao, H. Y. Peng
Dynamic monitoring of plant cover and soil erosion often uses remote sensing data, especially for estimating the plant cover rate (vegetation coverage) by vegetation index. However, the latter is influenced by atmospheric effects and methods for correcting th…
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