Developmental stage-and concentration- specific sodium nitroprusside application results in nitrate reductase regulation and the modification of nitrate metabolism in leaves of Medicago truncatula plants

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Antoniou, Chrystalla ^a   Filippou, Panagiota ^a   Mylona, Photini ^b   Fasoula, Dionysia ^c   Ioannides, Ioannis ^c   Polidoros, Alexios ^d   Fotopoulos, Vasileios ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Hydrogen peroxide; Medicago truncatula; Nitrate reductase; Nitric oxide; Nitrosative stress; Oxidative stress; Sodium nitroprusside

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CAROTENOID; CHLOROPHYLL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIPID PEROXIDATION; METABOLISM; NITROSATIVE STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF;

ANTIOXIDANTS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROSATIVE STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SODIUM NITROPRUSSIDE;

CAROTENOIDS; CHLOROPHYLL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; NITROPRUSSIDE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84883484817     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.25479     Document Type: Article

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