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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…
Brooke J. Czwartacki, Carl C. Trettin
Resilience is a key function that affects an ecosystem’s ability to recover from disturbance. Understanding the extent to which forest communities recover after a long period of disturbance without direct intervention is important to provide context for consi…
Gubka Andrej, Nikolov Christo, Galko Juraj, Vakula Jozef, Kunca Andrej, Leontovyč Roman
In this paper, we briefly summarize the problems that have been affecting Slovakian forestry in the past, in the present and are expected in the future. In the past, the forests in Central Europe were significantly harmed by the development of mining, metallu…
Laura Bonora, Claudio Claudio Conese, Enrico Marchi, Enrico Tesi, Niccolò Brachetti Montorselli
Generally forest fires are related to human activities and need an effective fire prevention and suppression organization, based on a deep knowledge of the territory, fire behaviour and suppression system resources network. To organise monitoring, prevention…
Angel Rolando Endara-Agramont, Rafael Calderón-Contreras, Gabino Nava-Bernal, Sergio Franco-Maass
High-mountain forests (>3500 masl) are the main supplier of environmental services to Mexico City and its metropolitan area. Taking as a study case the Nevado de Toluca National Park, this article focuses on the considerable reduction on the density of its fo…
Nina Yulianti, Hiroshi Hayasaka
Analysis of the most recent 10-year periods (2002 to 2011) of MODIS hotspots data (fires) and precipitation in Palang karaya and Pontianak was carried out to identify seasonal and spatial fire occurrence in Kalimantan under El Nino con ditions, and to asses f…
Sylvina Lorena Casco, Juan José Neiff
Riparian and riverine aquatic plant species have evolved within the context of flowing water habitats for which the flooding and droughts are the forcing factors that shape the community features, either through a positive or negative effect on the ecosystem’…
Javier M. García-López, Carmen Allué
Some e ffects of climate change on the composition and competitive capacity of southern European Pinus sylvestris L. forests in the Mediterranean basin were evaluated. The variation over the period 1910-2008 through 30-year mobile averages of a Phytoclimatic…
Ayami Kaneko, Eri Noguchi, Yushi Ishibashi, Takashi Yuasa, Mari Iwaya-Inoue
In higher plants, autophagy is bulk degradation process in vacuole necessary for survival under nutrient-limited condi tions and plays important roles in senescence, development and pathogenic response, etc. Cowpea is one of the most important legume crops in…
Joanne R. M. Lee, Zane Duxbury, Ming-Bo Wang
Small RNAs are found in eukaryotes and are responsible for regulation of chromatin structure, RNA processing and stability, translation and transcription. 24-nt small interfering RNA (siRNA) are known to mediate gene inactivation via the RNA-directed DNA meth…
Leonida Cherotich, Samson M. Kamunya, Amos Alakonya, Solomon W. Msomba, Marie A. Uwimana, John K. Wanyoko, Phillip O. Owuor
Tea polyphenols and catechins have gained prominence in determination of tea quality. Tea leaves contain large amounts of catechins and their derivatives and these have shown positive effects on human health. An experiment was carried out to determine the lev…
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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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