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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…
Vijayasankar Raman, Ahmed M. Galal, Ikhlas A. Khan
This paper describes the detailed anatomy and micromorphology of the vegetative parts of Piper sarmentosum Roxb. (synonym, P. lolot C.DC.), which is a southeast Asian medicinal plant valued for its medicinal and culinary uses. The study also compares the anat…
Siti Nurhadis Che Omar, Janna Ong Abdullah, Khairul Anuar Khairoji, Sieo Chin Chin, Muhajir Hamid
Melastoma malabathricum Linn. is a shrub that belongs to the family Melastomataceae and a common herbal plant used in folk medicines to treat inflamed wounds. This study was carried out with the aim to evaluate the inhibitory activities of different concentra…
Tomoko Matsubara, Motohito Yoneda, Takaaki Ishii
We analyzed an isolate of fungus that seems to be a new type orchid mycorrhizal fungus, “KMI (refers to Kyoto-Ma- tsubara-Ishii)”, obtained from the roots of Paphiopedilum thailandense Fowl. KMI has hyphal branching into right angle similar to Rhizoctonia -li…
Wenhao Xiang, Li Zhao, Xin Xu, Yonghua Qin, Guanghui Yu
Modern agriculture is facing new challenges in which ecological and molecular approaches are being integrated to achieve higher crop yields while minimizing negative impacts on the environment. The application of biofertilzers could meet this requirement. Bio…
Luiz H. Rosa, Nurhayat Tabanca, Natascha Techen, David E. Wedge, Zhiqiang Pan, Ulrich R. Bernier, James J. Becnel, Natasha M. Agramonte, Larry A. Walker, Rita M. Moraes
Echinacea is one of the top ten selling medicinal herbs in Europe and United States. Commercially available formulations may contain different plant parts of three species ( Echinacea purpurea , E. pallida , and E. angustifolia ). Our study evaluates the dive…
Ram Lal Shrestha, Durga Datta Dhakal, Durga Mani Gautum, Krishna Prasad Paudyal, Sangita Shrestha
Acid lime ( Citrus aurantifolia ) fruits are cultivated in terai, mid hill and high hill districts of Nepal. It is cross-pollinated crop and has a high variation in fruit characters within the species. Fruit character is the main basis of genotype selection.…
Juthaporn Saengprajak, Piyaporn Saensouk
DNA polymorphism in the cultivar species; Cucumis sativus L., C. melo L. and Benincasa hispida Cogn. of subtribe Cucumerinae (Cucurbitaceae) in the four northeastern provinces of Thailand was examined by using RAPD technique. Twenty 10-mer primers were produc…
Rodrigo W. dos Santos, Éder C. Schmidt, Roberta de P. Martins, Alexandra Latini, Marcelo Maraschin, Paulo A. Horta, Zenilda L. Bouzon
This paper aimed to evaluate the effects of different concentrations of cadmium on growth rates, photosynthetic pigments, photosynthetic performance, biochemical parameters and structure of chloroplasts in G. domingensis . To accomplish this, apical segments…
Nu-Ri Ahn, Jung-Moon Ko, Hyeon-Cheol Cha
Two species of Calystegia , C. soldanella and C. japonica which both are vine perennials belong to Convolvulaceae habituated in extremely different environment. In order to elucidate the effect of flavonoids to tolerate environmental stress we chose a sand-du…
Shinjiro Ogita, Shinya Ohki, Taiji Nomura, Yasuo Kato
We propose a novel Madake ( Phyllostachys bambusoides ) bamboo suspension culture model for investigation of key enzyme(s) activity involved in growth/differentiation. Sedimented Cell Volume (SCV) and fresh weight (FW) of the suspension cultured cells reached…
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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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