Volume 10, Issue 4 (2015) | American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Effects of Cement Dust on the Physiological Activities of Arabidopsis thaliana

Saeid Abu-Romman — 2015-11-17

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 17 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2015.157.164

Air pollution exerts detrimental effects on plant ecosystems and restricts agricultural productivity. Cement dust is considered to be one of the most harmful air pollutants of industrial origin and is...

Introgression the SalTol QTL into the Elite Rice Variety of Russia by Marker-Assisted Selection

Alexander Vyacheslavovich Usatov — 2015-11-18

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 18 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2015.165.169

The present work is devoted to investigation of the possibility to apply methods of Marker-Assisted Selection (MAS) to introgression the SalTol QTL into genotypes of elite Russian varieties of rice. I...

Can Anthocyanins be Part of the Metal Homeostasis Network in Plant?

Marco Landi — 2015-12-09

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 9 December 2015; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2015.170.177

Anthocyanins are a class of flavonoids with a high level of diversification and likely the most studied pathway of secondary metabolism in Plantae. Anthocyanins have raised a growing interest due to t...

Compaction Properties of Silty Soils in Relation to Soil Texture, Moisture Content and Organic Matter

Prathuang Usaborisut — 2015-12-31

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2015; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2015.178.185

Soil compaction is recognized as an increasingly challenging problem with regard to root growth and yield reduction in agricultural production in Thailand. The aim of this research was to study the ef...

Models of Winter Wheat Yield Based on Calcareous Chernozem Fertility Parameters

Olga A. Biryukova — 2016-01-01

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Published online: 1 January 2016; doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2015.186.196

The use of polyelement diagnostics and regression analysis for predicting the yield of winter wheat at different stages of vegetation is considered. It has been established that the prediction and int...