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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…
V. I. Chikov, G. A. Akhtyamova
The results of long-term studies of photorespiration are summarized and the unsuccessful attempts to increase productivity by suppressing this process are shown. It has been shown that photorespiration and glycolate metabolism are involved in the regulation o…
Nader Soltani, Christy Shropshire, Peter H. Sikkema
Six field studies were completed in Ontario (during 2016 to 2018) to assess the tolerance of adzuki, kidney, small red and navy bean to 2,4-D ester at 528 or 1056 g · ai · ha -1 applied 14, 7 and 1 day before seeding (PP) and 3 days after seedin…
Ali Msheik, Mustapha Haidar, Hadi Jaafar
Strawponic is an innovative and exotic system for growing potato on soil surface using crop straw as cover mulch. A field trial was carried out at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon to test the efficacy of this system for small potato producers. Bar…
Haiyan Shu, Keming Li, Wei Sun, Guiying Xu, Rulin Zhan, Shenghe Chang
Forcing flower is an important step for planting pineapple. Although many papers have been reported about forcing flower for pineapple plants on the aim of harvesting fruits, no reports have been found about forcing flower at seedling phase for preparing bons…
Abdul-Halim Abubakari, Ben K. B. Banful, Laura Atuah
Many organic materials found in urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa have not been exploited for the development of feedstock specific quality standards of compost especially for use as soilless media. The objective of this study was to determine feedstock speci…
Shardendu K. Singh, 1 1, Jinyoung Y. Barnaby, Vangimalla R. Reddy, Richard C. Sicher
Impacts of potassium (K) deficiency and elevated carbon dioxide (eCO 2 ) on seed constituents have rarely been explored in most crops including soybean. A controlled environment experiment was conducted with soybean grown under a sufficient (5.0 mM) and two d…
L. Gratani, F. Tarquini, R. Catoni
The capability of trees growing in the Campus of Sapienza University of Rome to improve environmental quality was analyzed. Measurements of CO 2 concentration, air temperature and humidity, traffic density and noise level were carried out along a transect fro…
Sakhobat U. Kuzieva, Dilfuza A. Imomova, Guljan M. Duschanova
The results of a study conducted by light microscopy methods of the anatomical structure of the vegetative organs of Spiraea hypericifolia growing in natural habitat in the Bakhmal district in the south of the Jizzakh region of Uzbekistan are presented and th…
Yangying Sun, Minli Lin, Yuanzhi Chen, Xuan Chen, Ye Cai, Huabin Luo, Ting Zhou
Major pathogens causing fruit rots of apple in shelf life in Hangzhou, a city in east China, were identified by rDNA-ITS analysis. Their pathogenicities and stress tolerances were compared as well. Combining with disease symptoms, colonial phenotypes and myce…
Seemanti Chatterjee, Anjana Dewanji
Urbanization contributes to extensive land use changes and environmental degradation which may influence changes in soil properties. These abiotic changes may aggravate invasions and favour the distribution and number of invasive species in urban areas which…
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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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