Effect of growing season on the photosynthetic apparatus and leaf antioxidative defenses in two maize genotypes of different chilling tolerance

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-139

  Leipner, Jörg ^a   Fracheboud, Yvan ^a   Stamp, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Low growth temperature; Oxidative stress; Pigments; Quantum efficiency; Scavenging enzymes; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLD TOLERANCE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GROWTH REGULATION; MEHLER REACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; SWITZERLAND;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032857356     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-8472(99)00026-X     Document Type: Article

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