Reactive oxygen species in plants: Their generation, signal transduction, and scavenging mechanisms

Australian Journal of Crop Science

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 709-725

  Karuppanapandian, Thirupathi ^a   Moon, Jun Cheol ^a   Kim, Changsoo ^b   Manoharan, Kumariah ^c   Kim, Wook ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidative defense system; Hydrogen peroxide; Oxidative damage; Reactive oxygen species; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960126751     PISSN: 18352693     EISSN: 18352707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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