Proline and reactive oxygen/nitrogen species metabolism is involved in the tolerant response of the invasive plant species Ailanthus altissima to drought and salinity

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 97, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Filippou, Panagiota ^a   Bouchagier, Pavlos ^b   Skotti, Effie ^b   Fotopoulos, Vasileios ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Ailanthus altissima; Nitrate reductase; Proline; Reactive nitrogen species; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALDEHYDE; AMINO ACID; DICOTYLEDON; DROUGHT; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INVASIVE SPECIES; OXYGEN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; SALINITY; SEEDLING; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOLERANCE;

EID: 84886411799     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2013.09.010     Document Type: Article

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