Dirk Inze, Marc van Montagu

Oxidative Stress in Plants (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Plants depend on physiological mechanisms to combat adverse environmental conditions, such as pathogen attack, wounding, drought, cold, freezing, salt, UV, intense light, heavy metals and SO2. Many of these cause excess production of active oxygen species in plant cells. Plants have evolved complex defense systems against such oxidative stress, and biologists are now studying these mechanisms in-depth. Oxidative Stress in Plants explores how various biotic and abiotic environmental stress conditions produce oxygen radicals. It explains the biochemistry and molecular biology of both non-enzymatic (vitamin C, glutathione) and enzymatic systems which eliminate active oxygen species.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134485147
• Artikelnr.: 57541219

Autorenporträt

Inze, Dirk Van Montagu, Marc

Inhaltsangabe

Oxidative Stress: an Introduction. The Contribution of Oxygen Metabolism in
Photosynthesis to Oxidative Stress in Plants. Low-temperature Stress and
Antioxidant Defense Mechanisms in Higher Plants. Oxidative Stress and
Defense Reactions in Plants Exposed to Air Pollutants and UV-B Radiation.
Oxidative Burst and the Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Plant-Pathogen
Interactions. Photosensitizing Tetrapyrroles Induce Antioxidative and
Pathogen Defense Responses in Plants. Metals Ion-activated Oxidative Stress
and Its Control. Engineering Stress Tolerance in Maize. Early Events in
Environmental Stresses in Plants - Induction Mechanisms of Oxidative
Stress. The Molecular Biology of the Ascorbate-Glutahione Cycle in Higher
Plants. Ascorbate Metabolism and Stress. Glutathione Biosynthesis in
Plants.