Oxidative Stress in Plants

Oxidative Stress in Plants
ISBN-10
1134485131
ISBN-13
9781134485130
Category
Science
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2001-10-18
Publisher
CRC Press
Authors
Dirk Inze, Marc Van Montagu

Description

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. The

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