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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…
Moses C. Wambulwa, Francis N. Wachira, Laura S. Karanja, Samuel M. Muturi
Banana ( Musa sp .) is a popular and important crop among many communities in East Africa. Banana production is however threatened by the wide-spread banana streak disease (BSD), caused by Banana streak virus (BSV). The success of BSV management is inherently…
Angelo Gismondi, Mariagiovanna Serio, Lorena Canuti, Antonella Canini
Saffron, the most expensive spice in the world, is got by Crocus sativus L. stigmas. The production of this substance has attracted human interest, since ancient cultures, for its medicinal and culinary properties. Because of saffron high economic value, some…
Lingling Zhang, Yue Pan, Jinmin Fu, Junhua Peng
Many metabolites in leaf tissue disturbed plant genomic DNA isolation and always varied when leaves was harvested from different environments. Objective of this study was to investigate whether season, environment stress and refrigerated storage affect genomi…
Gustavo Brunetto, Gustavo Trentin, Carlos Alberto Ceretta, Eduardo Girotto, Felipe Lorensini, Alcione Miotto, Glaucia Regina Zaferi Moser, George Wellington de Melo
The SPAD reading may be used in estimating total nitrogen content (N) in leaves and even in estimating grape yield in grapevines. The objective of this study was to estimate total N content in leaves and grape yield using the SPAD-502 in grapevines submitted…
Elena Solana-Arellano, Héctor Echavarría-Heras, Victoria Díaz-Castañeda, Olga Flores-Uzeta
In order to compare to data gathering methods for shoot biomass assessments of Zostera marina , we compare two allometric models each one representing a data gathering method, one at leaf level and the other in aggregated form. The first allometric model pres…
Maolin Peng, Xiyao Wang, Liqin Li
With the detoxicated seedling of a potato cultivation breed named “Mire” as the material, the effect of auxins CCC, 6-BA, and active carbon to microtubers of potato ( Solanum tubersum L.) was investigated under the in-vitro circumstances. The result indicated…
Bouzid Nedjimi, Brahim Beladel, Brahim Guit
Mediterranean large lakes play an important role in providing a range of ecosystem functions and supporting biodiversity. The conservation and management of these lakes require more detailed knowledge of their ecology and environment-vegetation relationships.…
Liqin Li, Yubi Huang, Wei Wang, Yaling Xu
In higher plants, WRKY gene family plays a significant role in transcriptional regulation. They are widely involved in biotic stress, abiotic stress, growth, development and metabolism regulation. In this study WRKY 6 from tobacco is cloned by homology clonin…
Robert E. Hoagland, C. Douglas Boyette, Kevin C. Vaughn, Neal D. Teaster, Ken Stetina
The fungus Myrothecium verrucaria (Alb. & Schwein.) (MV), originally isolated from diseased sicklepod ( Senna obtusifolia L.), has bioherbicial activity against kudzu and several other weeds when applied with low concentrations of the surfactant Silwet L-77.…
John N. Ndung’u, Francis N. Wachira, Miriam G. Kinyua, David K. Lelgut, Henry Okwaro, Peter Njau, Hannington Obiero
Cassava ( Manihot esculenta Cranzt) is an important food security crop for poor rural communities particularly in Africa. However, little is known about variability of critical root nutritional and quality traits of African cassava germplasm. Cassava roots co…
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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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