Oxidative Stress in Plants
| By: | Dirk Inze; Marc Van Montagu |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415272148 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781134485130 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2002 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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