Abstract
Ozone exposure induces oxidative stress in plant cells in a similar way in both trees and annual plants. As a result of exposure to ozone, several different responses, such as alterations in gene expression, and ultimately, cell death by the active and regulated process of oxidative cell death can be detected. Oxidative cell death takes place in plants also in response to other stress factors, such as pathogen attack. Signal transduction during oxidative cell death is poorly understood, but involvement of ethylene, jasmonic acid, and salicylic acid mediated signaling pathways have been implicated. Most of this knowledge is derived from annual model species, such as Arabidopsis thaliana, but is applicable to tree species as well. These results suggest that ozone damage, also in trees, is a result of deleterious firing by the reactive oxygen species of pathways normally associated with the plant hypersensitive response to pathogens, where reactive oxygen species have a central and integral role in regulating programmed cell death. Establishment of EST libraries and methods for functional genomics and proteomics in novel plant species will allow a more detailed elucidation of the mechanisms involved in ozone-induced cell death in trees as well.
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Kangasjärvi, J., Tuominen, H., Overmyer, K. (2001). Ozone-Induced Cell Death. In: Huttunen, S., Heikkilä, H., Bucher, J., Sundberg, B., Jarvis, P., Matyssek, R. (eds) Trends in European Forest Tree Physiology Research. Tree Physiology, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9803-3_6
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