Exogenous selenium pretreatment protects rapeseed seedlings from cadmium-induced oxidative stress by upregulating antioxidant defense and methylglyoxal detoxification systems

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 248-261

  Hasanuzzaman, Mirza ^a,b   Hossain, Mohammad Anwar ^a   Fujita, Masayuki ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHER E BANGLA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress tolerance; Antioxidant defense; Ascorbate glutathione cycle; Heavy metal toxicity; Reactive oxygen species; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CADMIUM; CATALASE; DEHYDROASCORBIC ACID REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYDROXYACYLGLUTATHIONE HYDROLASE; LACTOYLGLUTATHIONE LYASE; MALONALDEHYDE; METHYLGLYOXAL; SELENIUM;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GERMINATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT STRESS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RAPESEED; SEEDLING;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BRASSICA RAPA; CADMIUM; GLUTATHIONE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PYRUVALDEHYDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEEDLING; SELENIUM;

BRASSICA NAPUS;

EID: 84867578413     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: 15590720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12011-012-9419-4     Document Type: Article

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