Plant sugars are crucial players in the oxidative challenge during abiotic stress: Extending the traditional concept

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1242-1255

  Keunen, Els ^a   Peshev, Darin ^b   Vangronsveld, Jaco ^a   Van Den Ende, Wim ^b   Cuypers, Ann ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b LEUVEN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTRE LFORCE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Oxidative stress; Reactive oxygen species; Vacuole

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PLANT; SIGNAL; SUGAR;

ANTIOXIDANT; DISACCHARIDE; FRUCTAN; RAFFINOSE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL VACUOLE; CHLOROPLAST; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXISOME; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANTIOXIDANTS; CHLOROPLASTS; DISACCHARIDES; FRUCTANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXISOMES; PLANTS; RAFFINOSE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VACUOLES;

EID: 84878668379     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12061     Document Type: Article

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