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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…
Rachel I. Ndala, Ernest Rashid Mbega, Patrick A. Ndakidemi
The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of plant extracts in managing late blight disease in tomato, in vitro . Crude extracts were from Plectranthus barbatus , Tephrosia vogelii , Sphaeranthus suaveolens and Lantana camara . These were compa…
Hamdia Mahmoud Abd El-Samad, Mohamed Abdo Kheder Shaddad, Khloud Nagy Shaker
It is worthy to mention that the two broad bean cultivars displayed a surprising situation during the fruiting stage of growth. The absolute amount of pods yield was higher in cv. Assiut 125 than in cv. Assiut 84. This situation was in contrast with that in t…
Taylor C. Adams, Dirk Philipp, David M. Burner, John Jennings, Becky Mc Peake, Amanda J. Ashworth, Daniel H. Pote, Joan M. Burke, Robert Rhein
Agroforestry systems have the potential to provide year-long income opportunities via the integrated forage or crop, timber, and livestock. Legumes are an attractive alternative option during the growing season when more traditional forages may not be as prod…
Damba Yahaya, Nicholas Denwar, Mustapha Mohammed, Matthew W. Blair
To explore the variations in symbiotic N 2 fixation and water use efficiency in cowpea, this study evaluated 25 USDA cowpea genotypes subjected to drought under field conditions at two locations (Kpachi and Woribogu) in the Northern region of Ghana. The 15 N…
Md Mozammel Haque, Abdul Latif Sha, Jatish Chandra Biswas, Md Rafiqul Islam, Aminul Islam, Umme Aminun Naher
Background and objective: Long-term fertility study is one of the important factors to monitor changes in yield because of different nutrient management options and cropping systems involved in Asian regions. Many short-term and long-term fertilizer trials we…
Naitong Yu, Jianhua Wang, Naixin Yu, Xiaobao Zheng, Qin Zhou, Zhixin Liu
Protein and protein interactions play important roles in many biological processes and are responsible for carrying out the function of biological regulatory network in living organisms. Previous study indicated that Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) coat protei…
Srijana Shah, Krishna Kumar Shrestha, 1 1, Christoph Scheidegger
Functional traits are predictors of plants in response to environmental stimuli. They represent specific functional adaptations to various environmental stresses. This study deals with the variation in plant functional traits along elevation gradient and land…
Tene Tayo Paul Martial, Dzelamonyuy Aristide, Omokolo Ndoumou Denis, Boudjeko Thaddée
The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of oyster shell powder soil amendment to enhance cocoa seedling growth and induce resistance against Phytophthora megakarya in nurseries. The results showed that heat-treated oyster shells powder at 1% (w/w) s…
Appolonia A. Obiloma, Wenceslaus C. Madu, Godson O. Osuji, Peter A. Ampim, Aruna D. Weerasooriya, Laura E. Carson
Tropical medicinal plant spices have remained underutilized in commercial food processing because of the inadequate chemical characterization of their terpene compositions. The activity of medicinal plants used in flavoring is due to their terpene contents. T…
Mónica B. Collado, Mónica B. Aulicino, Miguel J. Arturi, María del C. Molina
This study details the nature and magnitude of the genetic effects associated with various quantitative characters (morphological and hydric relations) measured in maize seedlings during the osmotic phase of saline stress (100 mM NaCl). Three lines with diffe…
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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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