Oxidative Stress in Plants

by Inze; Dirk

• ISBN13: 9780415272148
• ISBN10: 0415272149
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-18
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

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 study of these mechanisms has become a fast-moving, important field to many biologists. Written and edited by world-leading scientists, Oxidative Stress in Plants explores the current knowledge of the mechanisms by which various biotic and abiotic environmental stress conditions produce oxygen radicals. The text considers the biochemistry and molecular biology of both non-enzymatic (vitamin C, glutathione) and enzymatic systems which eliminate active oxygen species. In addition, the book discusses evidence that active oxygen species and antioxidants act as signals which trigger defense reactions.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Contributors	ix
Abbreviations	xii
Oxidative Stress: An Introduction	1	(32)
Rafael Perl-Treves
Avihai Perl
The Contribution of Photosynthetic Oxygen Metabolism to Oxidative Stress in Plants	33	(36)
Christine H. Foyer
Low-Temperature Stress and Antioxidant Defense Mechanisms in Higher Plants	69	(36)
Stanislaw Karpinski
Gunnar Wingsle
Barbara Karpinska
Jan-Erik Hallgren
Oxidative Stress and Defense Reactions in Plants Exposed to Air Pollutants and UV-B Radiation	105	(32)
Christian Langebartels
Martina Schraudner
Werner Heller
Dieter Ernst
Heinrich Sandermann Jr.
Oxidative Burst and the Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Plant-Pathogen Interactions	137	(18)
Dierk Scheel
Photosensitizing Tetrapyrroles Induce Antioxidative and Pathogen Defense Responses in Plants	155	(16)
Hans-Peter Mock
Ulrich Keetman
Bernhard Grimm
Metal Ion-Activated Oxidative Stress and its Control	171	(20)
Jean-Francois Briat
Engineering Stress Tolerance in Maize	191	(26)
Frank Van Breusegem
Marc Van Montagu
Dirk Inze
Early Events in Environmental Stresses in Plants: Induction Mechanisms of Oxidative Stress	217	(30)
Jun'ichi Mano
The Molecular Biology of the Ascorbate-Glutathione Cycle in Higher Plants	247	(24)
Gary P. Creissen
Philip M. Mullineaux
Ascorbate Metabolism and Stress	271	(26)
Mark W. Davey
Marc Van Montagu
Dirk Inze
Glutathione Biosynthesis in Plants	297	(16)
Teva Vernoux
Rocio Sanchez-Fernandez
Mike May
Index	313