Plant stress and human health: Do human consumers benefit from UV-B acclimated crops?

Plant Science

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 449-458

  Jansen, Marcel A K ^a   Hectors, Kathleen ^b   O'Brien, Nora M ^a   Guisez, Yves ^b   Potters, Geert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Metabolomics; Nutritional value; Plant metabolite; Stress; UV B radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549088811     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2008.04.010     Document Type: Review

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