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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…
Elisabet V. Wehncke, Xavier López-Medellín, Michael Wall, Exequiel Ezcurra
In the Central Desert of northern Baja California, blue fan palm populations ( Brahea armata ) are found as isolated oases on mountaintops and along canyons with ephemeral flow conditions. Here, the effect of the interaction between the larva of an endemic mo…
Poliana Cardoso-Gustavson, Nathalia L. Andreazza, Alexandra C. H. F. Sawaya, Marilia de Moraes Castro
Passiflora species presents a coevolutive relationship with Heliconiini butterflies, their primary herbivores. The Heliconiini caterpillars are able to detoxify toxic compounds produced by Passiflora , thus morphological defense strategies stand out over chem…
Akira Iizuka, Fumihiko Yoshie, Sakae Amagaya, Takaaki Yasuda, Maki Iizuka, Haruyo Yamaguchi, Seiji Nagumo, Kazuo Kondo
We previously reported that Dai-saiko-to (Da-Chai-Hu-Tang), a traditional Japanese kampo medicine, increased LDL receptor mRNA expression in the liver of the hypercholesterolemic rabbits. In this study, we focused on LDL receptor gene expression in a human he…
Thi Lam Huong Pham, Irmtraut Zaspel, Michael Schuemann, Heike Stephanowitz, Eberhard Krause
For the first time, mass spectrometric (MS) techniques were employed to rapidly detect the pathogen Chalara fraxinea in-vitro and directly in-vivo in tissues of diseased ash trees caused by C . fraxinea , using a range of characteristic novel secondary metabo…
Tara L. Bal, Dana L. Richter, Andrew J. Storer, Martin F. Jurgensen
Unusually high levels of dieback have recently been reported in sugar maple, Acer saccharum Marsh., in Upper Michigan , and a network of plots was established to determine the extent and factors associated with the dieback. A possible contributor to this dieb…
Nataly R. Meychik, Yuliya I. Nikolaeva, Igor P. Yermakov
We have done a comparative study of ion status, growth and biochemical parameters in shoots and roots of seablite ( Suaeda altissima (L.) Pall.) and spinach ( Spinacia oleracea L.) grown with different salinity levels in the medium (0.5 - 750 m М ). A distinc…
Lijun Chen, Na Sun, Jin Wang, Hua Ling, Lida Zhang, Kaijing Zuo
Early stage expression of PR 10 combined with phytoalexins contributed to Verticillium wilt resistance in cotton. In order to analysis the activities of PR 10 proteins during pathogens’ infection, we cloned a Verticillium -induced PR 10 ( GbPR 10-1) gene from…
Ayan Das, Amit Roy, Daniel Hess, Sampa Das
Hemipteran insects are the most devastating pest for different crops of high economic value. Colocasia esculenta tuber agglutinin (CEA), a mannose binding monocot lectin from araceae family was previously reported by the present group to be effective against…
Arpita Bala, Amit Roy, Niranjana Behura, Daniel Hess, Sampa Das
Brown planthopper, the sap sucking hemipteran pest, is one of the major contributors to the yield loss of rice through the world. To combat the situation researchers are interested identifying genes from plant origin having potentiality to develop hemipteran…
Bouchra Douaihy, Philipp E. Chetverikov, Nathalie Machon, Magda Bou Dagher-Kharrat
We report for the first time the occurrence of Trisetacus acari Eriophyoid parasite infesting Juniperus excelsa seeds in Lebanon. The specimen studied belong most probably to the species T . kirghizorum (Shevchenko 1962) living on J . semiglobosa in the Kirgh…
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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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