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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…
Khalid El-Sayed Abd El-Hamed, Mohammed Wasfy Mohammed Elwan
Pumpkins (Cucurbita spp.) are an important specialty vegetable. Field studies were conducted on three pumpkin cultivars characterized with different growth habits to determine the effects of plant population and genotypes on marketable yield. Increasing plant…
Shrilekha Misra, Raj Kishori Lal, Mahendra Pandurang Darokar, Suman Preet Singh Khanuja
Capsicum annuum is the most widely cultivated species of peppers (chilies) in the world. For culinary purposes, its fruits are used for pungency (capsaicin) and also color (capsanthin). Capsaicin is also used for medicinal purposes particularly in anti-inflam…
Hongzhen Wang, Linda Olofsson, Anneli Lundgren, Peter E. Brodelius
<i>Artemisia annua</i> L. produces small amounts of the sesquiterpenoid artemisinin, which is used for treatment of malaria. A worldwide shortage of the drug has led to intense research to increase the yield of artemisinin in the plant. In order to study the…
Yuchuan Ding, Guohua Xu
This research was conducted to investigate the effects of low magnesium (Mg) with high potassium (K) supply on the Mg concentration, sugar partitioning and root growth of rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L. cv. Wuyunjing 7) plants grown in hydroponics under greenhou…
M. L. Jat, Raj Gupta, Y. S. Saharawat, Raj Khosla
Stagnating yield and declining input use efficiency in irrigated wheat of the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) coupled with diminishing availability of water for agriculture is a major concern of food security in South Asia. The objective of our study was to establi…
Marites A. Sales, Nilda R. Burgos, Vinod K. Shivrain, Brad Murphy, Edward E. Gbur
Red rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.), a noxious weed in rice production, competes with cultivated rice for nutrients. Accumulation of more N in red rice than in cultivated rice may be due to a mechanism different from that of cultivated rice. To test this assump…
Linbing Xu, Bingzhi Huang, Yuanli Wu, Yonghong Huang, Tao Dong
Over 50 years ago, banana export plantations in Panama were ruined by Fusarium wilt race 1 (Foc. R1) since the popular cultivar Gros Michel is susceptible to Foc. R1 [1]. Fortunately, the resistant cultivar Cavendish replaced Gros Michel as the world biggest…
Mudassar Iqbal, Anima Langer, Afroz Alam
Paper includes information on population status of <i>Conocephalum conicum</i> collected from diverse habitats in Bhader-wah (J & K state). Taxon exhibits tremendous diversity in morphoanatomical details of various gametophytic charac-ters. Isozyme analysis w…
Aparna Kakani, Zhaohua Peng
Auxin and cytokinin interaction plays an essential role in a wide range of plant growth and developmental processes. The interaction consequence of the two hormones is highly tissue specific. The molecular mechanisms underlying the tissue specificity are larg…
Claude Bakoumé, Mohamad Y. Aziah, Tangaya Praveena, Chee Keng Teh, Yahya Suzaini, Musa Hamidah, Mohamad S. Jangi, Mohd N. Basiran, Hashim Khairudin, Kulaveersingam Harikrishna
Since oil palm (<i>Elaeis guineensis</i> Jacq.) does not breed true, tissue culture-derived material is the resource of choice for achieving oil palm homogeneity in terms of growth and yield. Currently, no genomic tagging method is available with which one co…
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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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