Role of compatible solutes in enhancing antioxidative defense in plants exposed to metal toxicity

Plants Under Metal and Metalloid Stress: Responses, Tolerance and Remediation

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 207-228

  Handa, Neha ^a   Kohli, Sukhmeen Kaur ^a   Kaur, Ravdeep ^a   Sharma, Anket ^b   Kumar, Vinod ^b   Thukral, Ashwani Kumar ^a   Arora, Saroj ^a   Bhardwaj, Renu ^a  

^a GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b DAV University   (India)

Author keywords

Compatible solutes; Heavy metals; Osmolytes; Oxidative stress; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

EID: 85071091845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-2242-6_7     Document Type: Chapter

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