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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…
Z. Izadi, H. Zarei, M. Alizadeh
The influence of two grafting techniques on the success of stenting (simultaneous cutting and grafting) and some ensu ing growth parameters of stentlings were studied under glasshouse conditions. The Avalanch and Peach Avalanch glass house rose varieties were…
Byron B. Lamont, Philip K. Groom
Seeds are a source of organic (carbon, C) and mineral (nitrogen, N and phosphorus, P) nutrients for the growing seed ling. There is much information on seed mass and N and P contents, and the relationship between these and seedling mass. Within the world’s te…
Yi Chen, Suping Gao
With the explants of young nodals and leaves of Plumbago auriculata , we studied multiple shoots induction and plant regeneration in the medium with different PGR proportions. The results showed the nodals of Plumbago auriculata could be used as the explant t…
Qi Wang, Si Shen, Zhenyu Li
Twining stems of plants are very common in extant tropical and subtropical forests , and the climbing growth habit of plants may be an evolutionary innovation and ecological adaptation to either closed, shady or open, edge environments. However, the origin of…
Krishna N. Reddy, Robert M. Zablotowicz, L. Jason Krutz
A 4-yr field study was conducted from 2007 to 2010 at Stoneville, MS to examine the effects of rotating corn and soy bean under reduced tillage conditions on soil properties, yields, and net return. The six rotation systems were continu ous corn (CCCC), conti…
Ken-Ichiro Hibara, Wataru Hosoki, Tsuneo Hakoyama, Yoshihiro Ohmori, Toru Fujiwara, Jun-Ichi Itoh, Yasuo Nagato
We analyzed the abnormal shoot in youth ( asy ) mutant to understand the phase-specific regulation of shoot develop ment. asy showed various shoot abnormalities, including small leaves due to the precocious termination of cell division, defects in leaf blade-…
Nisha Singh Tomar, R. M. Agarwal
Jatropha curcas L . commonly known as “ physic nut ” is an exotic species that shows invasive characters. Plantation of Jatropha species is being undertaken at a large scale for biodiesel production. The plants defoliate their leaves twice a year and have bee…
Brian J. Schutte, Sam E. Wortman, John L. Lindquist, Adam S. Davis
A class of phenolic compounds, ortho- dihydroxyphenols (hereafter “ o- DHP”), has been implicated with seed survival. Based on expectations of the growth-differentiation balance hypothesis, we predicted that seed o- DHP concentration exhibits a curvilinear re…
Sepideh Pakpour
Recognition of the biological properties of numerous “natural products” has fueled the current focus of this field, namely, the search for new drugs, antibiotics, insecticides, and herbicides. Based on their biosynthetic origins, natural products can be divid…
Edak A. Uyoh, Peter N. Chukwurah, Roseline C. Akarika, Victoria A. Antia
Two commonly consumed spices in Nigeria — Piper nigrum (leaf and seed) and Monodora myristica (seed) were eva luated for natural antioxidant potentials in complementary in vitro assay systems. Extracts of the tested plant parts con tained low amounts of antio…
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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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