Role of Tocopherol (Vitamin E) in Plants: Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Beyond

Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 267-289

  Hasanuzzaman, Mirza ^a   Nahar, Kamrun ^a,b   Fujita, Masayuki ^b  

^a SHER E BANGLA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lipid soluble antioxidant; Oxidative stress; Reactive oxygen species; Tocopherols; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOCHEMISTRY; DETOXIFICATION; ETHYLENE; FREE RADICALS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN; PHYSIOLOGY; SALICYLIC ACID;

ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCES; ANTI-OXIDANT ACTIVITIES; ANTIOXIDANT DEFENSE SYSTEM; NON-ENZYMATIC ANTIOXIDANTS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC TISSUES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TOCOPHEROLS; VITAMIN-E;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 84938817480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800875-1.00012-0     Document Type: Chapter

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