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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…
Ijaz Rasool Noorka, Amarah Batool, Sultan AlSultan, Saba Tabasum, Amjed Ali
Twelve wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars and their sixteen direct and reciprocal crosses were evaluated for hetero sis, heterobeltiosis and potence ratio to determine the potential of wheat genotypes under contrasting water regimes. The highest positive…
Edak A. Uyoh, Peter N. Chukwurah, Imabasi A. David, Anna C. Bassey
The antioxidant activities of Ocimum basilicum and Ocimum gratissimum consumed as spices in Nigeria were evaluated in a bid to provid e better scientific basis for increased domestication efforts on them. Total phenol and flavonoid con tents of the spice extr…
Tomoaki Sakamoto, Hidemi Kitano, Shozo Fujioka
In two cases, mutations in the same brassinosteroid-related genes caused different phenotypes in japonica varieties Nipponbare and Taichung 65. The mutant phenotypes were less severe in the Taichung 65 background than in the Nip ponbare background. Three newl…
Michael Adjaloo, Ben Kwaku Branoh Banful, William Oduro
A comparative study was carried out to determine the most suitable substrate for breeding of midges ( Forcipomyia spp.) and the implications for pollination and yield in a typical cocoa production system in the forest ecological zone of Ghana. For the field e…
Moshe Silberbush
Until the 1980s, root studies were typically conducted in nutrient solution, because of the technical difficulties of studying roots in their natural environment, soil. Recent innovations and the realization that there are gaps between the expected and actual…
Kozue Yuge, Eriko Yasunaga, Shinji Fukuda, Wolfram Spreer, Vicha Sardsud, Wanwarang Pattanopo
The objective of this study is to evaluate the difference of the soil water management in mango orchards between the varieties of “ Irwin ” in Japanand “ Nam Dok Mai ” inThailand. Field observations were conducted in mango orchards in Okinawa, Japan and Phrao…
Ryota Koga, Tianxiao Meng, Eriko Nakamura, Chizuru Miura, Nobuto Irino, Shoji Yahara, Ryuichiro Kondo
Treading barley (“Mugifumi” in Japanese) is a barley culturing process that is unique and indispensable in Japan. Generally, roller machines or human feet are used to tread young barley several times (Figure 1). As a model examination, a stainless steel instr…
Joon Sang Lee
Stomatal aperture responses of Commelina communis L. between well watered plants and water stressed plants were investigated. To see the very rapid response to water stress, the plants were directly rooted out from the soil and exposed to the air immediately.…
Jacek Waga, Jerzy Zientarski, Maciej Szaleniec, Krystyna Obtułowicz, Wojciech Dyga, Andrzej Skoczowski
Wheat gliadin proteins-an important, nutritional component of many food products may also act as allergenic proteins causing various, clinical symptoms of IgE-mediated food allergies. Gliadins are coded by six complex loci on the chromosomes 1A, 1B, 1D,6A, 6B…
R. R. Sharma, D. Singh, R. K. Pal
Experiments were conducted to observe the effect of pre-harvest calcium (Ca) applied as calcium chloride (1% W/V) and postharvest hot water treatment (HWT) on “ Royal Delicious ” apples. For this , apples were divided in 4 lots viz., untreated (neither Ca nor…
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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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