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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…
Wajid Nasim, Ashfaq Ahmad, Asghari Bano, Rabiu Olatinwo, Muhammad Usman, Tasneem Khaliq, Aftab Wajid, Hafiz Mohkum Hammad, Muhammad Mubeen, Muzzammil Hussain
Sunflower ( Helianthus annuus L.) has emerged as an economically important crop in Pakistan due to its significant share in vegetable oil production. The plant metabolic processes require protein to increase the vegetative, reproductive growth and yield of th…
Gopesh C. Saha, George J. Vandemark
Dry pea ( Pisum sativum L.) is grown as human and animal feed throughout the world. Large yield losses in pea due to biotic and abiotic stresses compel an improved understanding of mechanisms of stress tolerance and genetic determinants conditioning these tol…
Chengjian Xie, De Wang, Fei Kou, Dan Kang, Xingyong Yang
Responses to biotic and abiotic stress have been extensively studied in plants. In the current proteomic study, the cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum L.) seedlings were infected with Verticillium dahliae by root-dip inoculation using suspension of fungal conidia. T…
Jayakrishnan Saimandir, Madhuban Gopal
Eggplant shoot and fruit borer (ESFB), Leucinodes orbonalis G. is a key pest of eggplant, Solanum melongena L. Organophosphates (OP) having high toxicity and persistence are used to control the pests in many developing countries, despite availability of new i…
Muzafar Sheikh, Abdul Rashid Malik, M. K. Meghavanshi, Irshad Mahmood
The aim of the present study was to check the antimicrobial potential of eleven different aqueous leaf extracts on Xanthomonas campestris , Agrobacterium rhizogenes and Aspergillus fumigatus based on formation of the zone of inhibition (ZOI). Prosopis juliflo…
James A. Bunce
I tested whether elevated [CO 2 ] affected which genotypes of Taraxacum officinale had highest fitness in two field experiments. In one experiment, T. officinale plants which persisted as weeds in alfalfa plots in open top chambers at ambient and elevated [CO…
Gayatri S. Gurjar, Ashok P. Giri, Vidya S. Gupta
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri ( Foc ), one of the most important fungal pathogen of chickpea, is a constant threat to this crop plant. In the present study gene expression analysis of chickpea roots during Foc infection was performed using various approach…
Hardev Ram, Arun Kumar, Santosh Kumar Sharma, Archana Ojha, Satyawada Rama Rao
Withania somnifera recently categorized as threatened plant of Rajasthan and known for its high medicinal value has been studied for existing genetic variations in four accessions collected from four different locations. From the present studies it is apparen…
K. Chandra Sekar
The present study deals with comprehensive list of Invasive alien plants of Indian Himalayan Region with background information on family, habit and nativity. A total of 190 invasive alien species under 112 genera, belonging to 47 families have been recorded.…
Louis K. Prom, John Erpelding, Ramasamy Perumal, Thomas Isakeit, Hugo Cuevas
Seventy-two sorghum accessions were randomly selected from the Ethiopia, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda germplasm collections maintained by the US National Plant Germplasm System to evaluate variation in anthracnose resistance. The accessions were planted in a rando…
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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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