Oxidative Stress in Plants

by Marc Van Montagu, Dirk Inzé, Marc Van Montague

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415272149
• ISBN13: 9780415272148
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"