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Antioxidant Defenses of Plants and Fungi

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Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defenses in Biology

Abstract

Plants face a common problem shared by all aerobic organisms. Molecular O2 is required to meet the energy demands of metabolism, but the necessary presence of O2 leads to the multifarious risks of oxidative damage due to the formation of activated forms of oxygen such as superoxide free radicals (O ·−2 ), H2O2, and hydroxyl radicals (·OH). The situation is particularly critical in plants because not only do plants have to tolerate atmospheric O2 but they have the additional burden of being oxygenic, thus insuring that the internal O2 concentration remains high in photosynthetic tissues. Indeed photosynthesis can be viewed as a very risky undertaking since large amounts of O2 are produced in the immediate vicinity (i.e., within chloroplasts) of a powerful oxidation-reduction system that can readily reduce O2 to O ·−2 . Since atmospheric O2 is derived from photosynthesis, it is perhaps poetic justice that the very organisms responsible for “polluting” the atmosphere with O2 should also be at high risk from the consequences.

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Dalton, D.A. (1995). Antioxidant Defenses of Plants and Fungi. In: Ahmad, S. (eds) Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defenses in Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9689-9_9

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