2011 April - 10 articles
Triacylglycerols (TAGs), which consist of three fatty acids bound to a glycerol backbone, are major storage lipids that accumulate in developing seeds, flower petals, pollen grains, and fruits of innumerous plant species. These storage lipids are of...
Sweet Flag (Acorus calamus L.) leaf and rhizome tissues were analyzed for biochemical compositions notably of carbohydrates and lipids. The glycolipid content measured in rhizome tissue was 62.3 mg%/FW almost double the glycolipid content (28.8 mg%/F...
ZYMV is one of the most important plant viruses that cause economical damage in cucurbits. The symptoms of ZYMV in different cucurbits include stunting, yellowing, mottling, severe mosaic, leaf and fruit deformation, blistering and shoe string. Inves...
Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth a well-known hemi-parasitic weed, it also has been used widely in African folk medicine to remedy broad spectra of diseases. The current contribution is an attempt to establish reproducible in vitro callusing system. I...
Beclardia macrostachya is one of the rarest orchids in Mauritius. In vitro techniques are being used for mass propagation of this orchid for subsequent restoration programs. Successful asymbiotic germination of Beclardia macrostachya was obtained thr...
DNA polymerase is an enzyme that adds nucleotides to the growing DNA chain during replication and DNA repair. DNA polymerase activity and fidelity are important characteristics that reflect the ability of DNA polymerase to add nucleotides and then pr...
Measurement of starch granules by lightmicroscope is the preferred approach in most laboratories because it is simple, rapid and visual and because both size and shape can be investigated. However, juice from potato tubers consists of starch granul...
In this study, we determined the accumulation levels of copper in tissues and the status of antioxidant enzyme activities in Mimosaceace prosopis fracta against Cu-toxicity in a copper mine. We measured the level of chlorophyll and the activities of...
Guava (Psidium guajava L.) is a very valuable tropical and subtropical fruit. However, guava micro-propagation are genotypes dependent, there are several problems associated with in vitro cultures of guava including browning or blackening of culture...
It is now one full year since the first manuscript submitted to the International Journal of Plant Biology was published online [...]
