Revival of a resurrection plant correlates with its antioxidant status

Plant Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 13-24

  Kranner, Ilse ^a   Beckett, Richard P ^b   Wornik, Sabine ^a   Zorn, Margret ^a   Pfeifhofer, Hartwig W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATAL PIETERMARITZBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Desiccation tolerance; Myrothamnus flabellifolia; Oxidative stress; Plastid pigments; Resurrection plant

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANTS; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DROUGHT; ENZYMES; HYDRATION; OXYGEN;

OXIDATIVE STRESS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

MYROTHAMNUS; SELAGINELLA PILIFERA;

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CHLOROPHYLL; GLUTATHIONE; TOCOPHEROL; XANTHOPHYLL;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; DEHYDRATION; METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT DISEASE;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CHLOROPHYLL; DEHYDRATION; GLUTATHIONE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT DISEASES; TOCOPHEROLS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 0035984144     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01329.x     Document Type: Article

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