Glutathione is a key antioxidant metabolite to cope with mercury and cadmium stress

Plant and Soil

Volumn 377, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 369-381

  Sobrino Plata, Juan ^a,b   Meyssen, Dirk ^c   Cuypers, Ann ^c   Escobar, Carolina ^b   Hernández, Luis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Biothiols; Cadmium; Glutathione; Mercury; Phytochelatins; glutamylcysteine synthetase

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CADMIUM; CHELATION; DICOTYLEDON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOASSAY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METABOLITE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYTOTOXICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84898058003     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-013-2006-4     Document Type: Article

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