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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…
Juan-Pablo Selva, Silvina C. Pessino, Mauro S. Meier, Viviana C. Echenique
This work was aimed at identifying genes that show altered expression profiles in response to changes in ploidy and/or reproductive mode (from sexual to apomictic) in the African grass Eragrostis curvula. A differential display analysis was performed on leaf…
Gamal M. A. Lashin
Palynology of six fern species belonging to the family Aspleniaceae from Saudi Arabia are investigated by light microscope (LM). These are: Asplenium aethiopicum , Asplenium trichomanes , Asplenium adiantum-nigrum , Asplenium sp.1, Asplenium sp.2 and Ceterach…
Wan-Ping Liu, Shu-Chai Su, Xiao Liu, Zhi-Xia Hou
In order to select severe overwintering abilitied blueberry cultivars for cold resistance of annual branches, promoting breeding high quality cultivars, a study had been conducted into field-planting shoots overwintering ability and the relative conductivity,…
Bavita Asthir, Puneet Kaur Rai, Navtej S. Bains, Virinder S. Sohu
Effect of high temperature tolerance in relation to carbon partitioning and grain sink activity was studied in ten genotypes of wheat (viz C 306, PBW 343, PBW 502, PBW 509, PBW 521, PBW 522, PBW 550, Inqalab, WL 711 and Sonalika) under normal (November, 25.6°…
Arun Prabhu Dhanapal
Protein disulphide isomerase (PDI) is an oxidoreductase enzyme abundant in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In plants, PDIs have been shown to assist the folding and deposition of seed storage proteins during the biogenesis of protein bodies in the endosperm.…
Shinjiro Ogita, Nanaka Kikuchi, Taiji Nomura, Yasuo Kato
Previously, we developed a particle bombardment-mediated transformation protocol in Phyllostachys nigra bamboo by expressing hygromycin phosphotransferase gene (HPT) and neomycin phosphotransferase II gene (NPT II). Although these marker genes could introduce…
Dennis A. Halterman, Gail Middleton
The gene RB is derived from the wild potato species S. bulbocastanum and confers partial resistance to late blight, caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans . In order to investigate whether a single strain of P. infestans can adapt to overcome…
Wayne W. Fish, Benny D. Bruton, Thomas W. Popham
In 2010, a foliar and stem-lesion disease that produced moderate to severe defoliation of watermelon was observed in the southern Great Plains. The disease was ultimately determined to be caused by Myrothecium roridum. The objective of this study was to compa…
Ibrahim Ghannam, Mohammad Al-Masri, Radwan Barakat
The Egyptian broomrape ( Orobanche aegyptiaca Pers.) is an obligate holoparasitic weed that causes severe damage to many important vegetable and field crops. In this investigation, three herbicides; chlorsulfuron, triasulfuron and imazaquin were tested to eva…
Styliani N. Chorianopoulou, Maria Giamouroglou, Dimitris L. Bouranis
water soluble protein fraction (WSPF) content along with the SOD and the CAT activities were comparatively monitored in leaf blades, sheaths and roots. S-deprivation progressively diminished WSPF first in the sheaths, two days later in the blades, and four da…
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