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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…
Dimitris L. Bouranis, Styliani N. Chorianopoulou, Alexandros Dionias, Giouli Sofianou, Aristotelis Thanasoulas, Georgios Liakopoulos, Dimosthenis Nikolopoulos
Seven-day-old maize (Zea mays) plants were grown hydroponically for ten days in deprived nutrient solutions against the corresponding control grown under full nutrition; the effects of S-, N- or P-deprivation on laminas’ mean stomatal conductance (g s ), tran…
Ekamber Kariali, Sunita Sarangi, Rashmi Panigrahi, Binay B. Panda, Pravat K. Mohapatra
In rice, the initiation of tillers is staggered and temporally spaced, but maturity is synchronous. Duration of growth in a later-initiated tiller on a higher culm node is shorter and it contributes less biomass and grain yield. The present investigation atte…
Wondewosen Shiferaw, Alemayehu Balcha, Hussen Mohammed
Tef [ Eragrostis tef (Zucc.)Trotter] is an ancient and major cereal crop in Ethiopia. Increasing tef grain yield partly requires developing cultivars that are adapted to drought stress environment. An experiment was carried out using 18 tef genotypes grown du…
V. V. Navrotskaya, G. Oxenkrug, L. I. Vorobyova, P. Summergrad
Drosophila melanogaster mutants with deficient kynurenine (KYN) formation from tryptophan (TRP) have longer life span than wild type flies. Administration of alpha-methyl-TRP and 5-methyl-TRY, the inhibitors of TRP-KYN metabolism, prolonged life span in wild-…
Maria M. Romeiras, Maria Cristina Duarte, Bucar Indjai, Luís Catarino
The sub-Saharan region holds a wide variety of indigenous plant species, still offering the possibility to discover very interesting new natural products with potential therapeutic value. Most of the African population depends on traditional medicine for prim…
Arshed Iqbal Dar, Ramesh Chandra Saxena, Suresh Kumar Bansal
Objective: To demonstrate the in-vivo hepatoprotective effect of the ethanolic extracts of Citrullus colocynthis (Linn.) against paracetamol induced hepatotoxicity in albino rats. Animal Model: Swiss Albino rats of either sex were used, divided into six group…
Shyam Sunder Chatterjee, Vikas Kumar
Consistent neglect of complex psychobiological processes involved in human health and diseases often leads to phar-macological discrepancies between preclinical and therapeutic observations. Numerous other pharmacological paradoxes arise from common practices…
C. V. Chandrasekaran, M. A. Vijayalakshmi, K. Prakash, V. S. Bansal, J. Meenakshi, A. Amit
Obesity, a complex interplay between environmental and genetic factors and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Usage of herbs for the management of obesity in the recent times is attracting attention. A web and manual based literature surv…
Tao He, Jing Xu, Lina Yang, Haitao Wang
Swertia mussotii Franch is an endangered medicinal plant in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Its regeneration from callus culture is very difficult. In this study, an efficient method for plant regeneration was developed from its calli. The calli derived from young…
Linh T. Bui, Amelia Hurst, Erin E. Irish, Chi-Lien Cheng
In land plants, two distinct generations, gametophyte and sporophyte, alternate to complete the life cycle. Sporophytes undergo meiosis to produce spores, from which gametophytes develop. Gametophytes produce gametes, which participate in fertilization to pro…
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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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