| Oxidative Stress in Plants Contributor(s): Inze, Dirk (Author), Van Montagu, Marc (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415272149 ISBN-13: 9780415272148 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $256.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Plants - Flowers - Science | Life Sciences - Biology - Science | Life Sciences - Microbiology |
| Dewey: 571.945 |
| LCCN: 2005281340 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.94" W x 9.94" (1.80 lbs) 336 pages |