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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…
A. O. Famaye, S. A. Adeosun, K. O. Ayegboyin, K. B. Adejobi, O. S. O. Akanbi, A. F. Okunade
Weed incidence and biomass in tree crop plantations are mainly influenced by environmental, farm management practices and cropping systems. Manipulation of intercropping systems to improve weed management in coffee intercropped with oil palm requires a better…
Most Tanziman Ara, Taiji Nomura, Yasuo Kato, Shinjiro Ogita
We focus on controlling morphological and histochemical responses of the shoot apical meristem (SAM) and root apical meristem (RAM) of bamboo node by using a simple and versatile liquid culture system. First, nodes of 11 different bamboo species that belong t…
Ticiane Rover, Zenilda L. Bouzon, Carmen Simioni
To evaluate the effects of brefeldin A (BFA) on Golgi bodies and indirectly on the polarized development of S . cymosum zygotes, zygotes were cultured at concentrations of 4 μM, 8 μM, 16 μM and 32 μM of BFA, prepared in sterilized seawater. After 12 hours, th…
Léonie Clémence Kouonon, Kouamé Guillaume Koffi, Koffi Adjoumani, Koudougnon Alice Estère Goba
In order to characterize neglected and underutilized legumes seeds (NULs), prospection, collection and characterization were carried out in five administrative regions from C o te d’Ivoire. Two thousand and fifty-four accessions were collected. NULs cultivati…
Robert E. Hoagland, Clyde Douglas Boyette, Robin H. Jordan, Kenneth C. Stetina
Previously we found two biotypes of Amaranthus palmeri (Palmer amaranth) in a population of this economically important weed that were resistant to glyphosate but differed with respect to pigmentation. One biotype was typically red-pigmented (betacyanin) whil…
Clyde Douglas Boyette, Robert E. Hoagland, Charles T. Bryson, Mark A. Weaver, Kenneth C. Stetina
A mycelial formulation of the bioherbicidal fungus Myrothecium verrucaria (Alb. & Schwein.) Ditmar: Fr. (MV) was tested alone and in combination with a commercially available glyphosate [ N -( phosphonomethyl )glycine] (GLY) product for controlling the invasi…
Christie Oby Onyia, Amarachi Maryann Okoh, Okoh Irene
Biofertilizer can be defined as preparation that contain s microbes capable of nitrogen (N)-fixation and phosphate solubilization that promote plant growth. These group s of microbes, classified as Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria (PGPB), colonize the rhizosph…
Sire Diedhiou, Komi B. Assigbetsee, Arfang O. K. Goudiaby, Ibrahima Diedhiou, Aminata N. Badiane, Modou Sène, Mamadou Khouma, Arona N. S. Samba, Richard P. Dick
In Senegal, in the Sahel region, the agroecosystem is dominated by two Sahelian shrubs able to redistribute water from deep soil to the surface. This study was carried out to determine the impact of these shrubs on soil microbial activity. A 2 × 3 factorial d…
Yubo Yang, Lingdi Dong, Linqi Shi, Jinghua Guo, Yonggang Jiao, Haizheng Xiong, Ryan William Dickson, Ainong Shi
The physiological changes and the mechanism of stress tolerance in tomato were studied under low temperature and low light conditions. Two growth chamber experiments evaluated three temperatures regimes under standard and relatively low illumination levels wi…
George S. Biliarski, Bakhyt Yertaeva, Amitava Mitra
Many organisms produce small proteins which exhibit antimicrobial activities. In recent decades, the biological role of antimicrobial peptides (AMP) has been recognized as the main factor in the defense mechanisms against a broad range of pathogenic microbes.…
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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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