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Signalling and Antioxidant Defence Mechanisms in Higher Plants

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Trends in European Forest Tree Physiology Research

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Major and rapid changes in environmental conditions can damage plant health and limit crop production. However, stress-sensing and subsequent regulation of the defence mechanisms in plants are poorly understood. The emphasis of this chapter will be to discuss: the evidence for the involvement of reactive oxygen species (ROS); the roles of the enzymatic and non-enzymatic ROS-scavenging and antioxidant systems; and avoidance mechanism of ROS production, during low-temperature and high light-induced oxidative stress. Furthermore the role of the redox status of the chloroplast will be discussed, particularly, quinone B and plastoquinone in regulation of expression of the nuclear- and the chloroplast-encoded genes that are necessarily for acclimatory processes.

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  3. Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Forestry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83, Umeå, Sweden

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Karpinski, S., Karpinska, B., Meltzer, M., Hällgren, JE., Wingsle, G. (2001). Signalling and Antioxidant Defence Mechanisms in Higher Plants. 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_7

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