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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…
Fika Ayu Safitri, Mohammad Ubaidillah, Miswar  , Kyung-Min Kim
The AtBI-1 gene encoding the Arabidopsis thaliana Bax inhibitor was introduced into Japonica cultivars of rice ( “ Ilmi ” ) by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, and a large number of transgenic plants were produced. The neomycin phosphotransferase II (NP…
Marcel Muengula-Manyi, Lyna Mukwa, Kabwe K. Nkongolo, Patrick Tshilenge-Djim, Stephan Winter, Claude Bragard, Adrien Kalonji-Mbuyi
The responses of eight genetically improved and eight local cassava varieties to cassava mosaic disease (CMD) were evaluated under field conditions at two sites, in Eastern Kasa ? , region of the DR-Congo). The varieties were planted using randomized complete…
Sharma Poonam, Harpreet Kaur, Sirhindi Geetika
Jasmonates are class of plant growth regulators act as signal molecule that intercede various components in physiological and metabolic regulation, stress responses and possibly communication through signal transduction. Oxidative stress due to heavy metal ex…
Giovanna Visioli, Elena Maestri, Eugenia Polverini, Angelo Pavesi, Nelson Marmiroli
We report the isolation of At L1, a 249 bp non-LTR retrotransposon fragment from Arabidopsis thaliana by fingerprint ing mRNAs extracted from A. thaliana plants, ecotype Columbia, in different heat stress conditions. Southern blot and PCR analysis suggested t…
Rosane G. Collevatti, Matheus Souza Lima-Ribeiro, José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho, Guilherme Oliveira, Ricardo Dobrovolski, Levi Carina Terribile
We identified climatically stable areas of seasonally dry forests (SDFs) from Central Brazil through time and assessed the effectiveness of the current reserves network in representing these climatically stable areas, as well as areas of high suitability in t…
Seloame T. Nyaku, Venkateswara R. Sripathi, Graham Wiley, Fares Z. Najar, Leland J. Cseke, Govind C. Sharma, Bruce A. Roe, Sarah Beth Cseke, Elica Moss, Ramesh V. Kantety
The reniform nematode (RN), Rotylenchulus reniformis , is an agriculturally important pest with a broad host range that results in a large economic impact in tropical, subtropical and in warm temperate zones. In an initial effort to understand the transcripto…
Qiaoqiao Huang, Yide Shen, Xiaoxia Li, Zhiwei Fan, Mingguang Li, Hanting Cheng
Exotic invaders may possess novel biochemical weapons that native plants do not have, and these novel biochemical weapons may be more allelopathic than those from native plants to other native competitors. During range expansion, native species also encounter…
Fredrick O. Amulaka, Joyce N. Maling’a, Mehmet Cakir, Richard M. S. Mulwa
Wheat is the second most important cereal in Kenya. However, production is severely constrained by both abiotic and biotic stresses. Of the biotic stresses a devastating pest ( Russian wheat aphid (RWA)) and a serious disease ( stem rust race TTKS (“Ug99”)) a…
Esteban Gonzalez, François Hébert, Jean-François Boucher, Pascal Sirois, Daniel Lord
Lichen woodlands (LW) located in the closed-crown boreal forest are not a successional stage moving towards a closed black spruce feathermoss stand (FM), but an alternative stable state, due to their previous forest history, and the occur rence of LWs located…
Timothy O. Randhir, Ayten Erol
Forests provide multiple ecosystem services that are critical to sustain societies and ecosystems. Protecting the forest systems become imperative as human demand for forest products and services increase. In addition to current stressors, several emerging th…
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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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