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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…
Kyung A Kim, Hee-Cheon Park, Jae-Keun Sohn, Kyung-Min Kim
The present study was conducted to develop EST-SSR markers using the cDNA library from rice plant. Total RNA extracted from the leaves of brown plant hopper resistance gene originated from a rice cultivar “Cheongcheong” and sensitive rice cultivar “Nakdong” w…
Aiyar Balasubramanian, Sonali Das, Anjana Bora, Susmita Sarangi, Asit B. Mandal
One of the major classes of antioxidant enzymes, which protect the cellular and subcellular components against harmful reactive oxygen species (ROS), is superoxide dismutase (SOD). SODs play pivotal role in scavenging highly reactive free oxygen radicals and…
Abdelali Elhamzaoui, Ahmed Oukabli, Jamal Charafi, Mohiéddine Moumni
Assessment of genetic diversity of Moroccan cultivated almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) grown from seed and cultivated at four eco-geographical regions was performed using 16 nuclear SSRs. 238 alleles were detected with an average of 14.88 alleles per locus, rang…
Hanna Sas-Nowosielska, Jolanta Małuszyńska, Tytus Bernas
Background: Supernumerary chromosomes (B) comprise optional complement to basic (A) chromosome set. The presence of B-chromosomes may significantly reduce plant vigor and fertility. Potentially active genes constitute only small fraction of DNA of these chrom…
Inderdeep Kaur, Reeta Kumari
Sargassum vulgare C. Agardh shows androgynous receptacles, each bearing on an average 12 unisexual conceptacles which open outside by ostiole, and wherein gametangia (antheridia or oogonia) lie interspersed with paraphyses. Since out-put of eggs is extremely…
Kiyoshi Matsubara, Satoshi Shindo, Hitoshi Watanabe, Fumio Ikegami
Japanese Angelica Root prepared from Angelica acutiloba var. acutiloba and A. acutiloba var. sugiyamae , known in Japan as “Toki” and “Hokkai Toki”, is an important crude drug used in Kampo medicine (traditional Japanese medicine). However, since these Angeli…
Julie Knudson, Paul Meiman, Cynthia Brown, George Beck, Mark Paschke, Edward Redente
Chemical restrictions, ecological concerns, liability issues, and public sentiment present challenges to land managers attempting to control highly invasive plants like Canada thistle ( Cirsium arvense [L.] Scop.). Although herbicide application can be an eff…
Rezq Basheer-Salimia, Murad Awad, Joy Ward
Both morphological characters and PCR-based RAPD approaches were used to determine the genetic diversity and relatedness among nine fig genotypes grown at the northern region of the West-Bank, Palestine. Although we tested 28 primers for the RAPD technique, o…
Bhaskar Bondada, Janani Shutthanandan
Among all fruit crops of horticultural importance, grapevines ( Vitis vinifera L.) stand out as the most drought tolerant crop species whose tolerance is credited to their proficiency to recover from water stress in both the natural and vineyard growing condi…
Muhammad F. Ahmed, Arumugam S. Kantharajah, Paul Holford
The use of traditional breeding for improvement of avocado cultivars is time consuming, hence other methods such as genetic transformation by Agrobacterium is indispensable to adopt. The strain GV3850/pBI121gave best transformation outcome compared to five ot…
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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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