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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…
Lisong Hu, Xuezhi Fang, Menghao Du, Fan Luo, Shaohai Guo
Hemicellulose is the second most abundant biomass in the world. Because of its unique chemical structure, hemicellulose has attracted more and more research and industry application under the background of fossil resource shortage and drawbacks. Hem i cellulo…
Mobio Anouman Désirée Sandrine, Koffi Kouamé Kevin, Kouonon Léonie Clémence
Lima bean is a legume belonging to Fabaceae family cultivated for edible seeds known to generic name of “haricot”. In C ô te d’Ivoire, it’s cultivated on small scale in rural zone by local farmers. The main objective of this study was to document and collect…
Xinyue Li, Bing Li, Changquan Wang, Yulan Chen, Peng Ma
The combined application of organic fertilizer and chemical fertilizer is an effective measure to increase nutrient content of soil plough layer, which must have a profound impact on the deep soil nutrients, especially the contents of nitrogen forms. The purp…
Nicholas L. Hurdle, Timothy L. Grey, Cristiane Pilon, W. Scott Monfort, Donn G. Shilling
Diclosulam and flumioxazin applied preemergent (PRE) results in direct peanut exposure to these herbicides prior to seedling emergence. Flumioxazin has been reported to induce injury in adverse weather ( i.e. cool-wet soil conditions) at crop emergence. Resea…
Nader Soltani, Christy Shropshire, Peter H. Sikkema
There are a limited number of soil-applied herbicides available for broad-spectrum weed control in dry bean production in Ontario, Canada. Four experiments were conducted from 2017 to 2019 in southwestern Ontario to compare the efficacy of six soil-applied gr…
John Maiganga Bakut, Yohanna Adamu Tende, Aksavdwa Isaac Agyigra, Mojisola O. Tende, Abdulkadir Umar Zezi, Nuhu Mohammed Danjuma
Over centuries, Sub-Saharan Africans have been using Sida corymbosa leaf extract during labour with the claims that it aids and facilitates childbirth among others. This study aimed at preliminary investigating the phytochemical constituent as well as the saf…
Mohamed Ben Amar
Abundant literature suggests the hypothesis that cannabis use leads to the onset of psychotic symptoms. However, the nature of the association and the causal link remain controversial. This review aims to identify the risk factors involved in the etiopathogen…
Reginald S. Fletcher
Pigweeds ( Amaranthus species), negatively impact crop production systems throughout the world. They are distinguished from each other using manual methods that are tedious and time-consuming to complete. Hyperspectral light reflectance properties of plant le…
Esmaeil Fallahi, Amir A. Khoddamzadeh, Bahar Fallahi, Shahla Mahdavi
Total crop load has an inverse relationship with fruit size, while larger fruit size is often demanded by the peach and nectarine markets. Hand-thinning is extremely expensive, and thus, crop load adjustment, using blossom thinners is a crucial practice to en…
Amare Seyoum, Zigale Semahegn, Amare Nega, Sewmehone Siraw, Adane Gebreyohannes, Hailemariam Solomon, Tokuma Legesse, Kidanemaryam Wagaw, Temesgene Terresa, Solomon Mitiku, Yirgalem Tsehaye, Moges Mokonen, Wakjira Chifra, Habte Nida, Alemu Tirfessa
Sorghum [ Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is a high-yielding, nutrient-use efficient, and drought tolerant crop that can be cultivated on over 80 per cent of the world’s agricultural land. However, a number of biotic and abiotic factors are limiting grain yield…
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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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