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Enzymatic defence against post-anoxic injury in higher plants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

B. Wollenweber-Ratzer  and
R. M. M. Crawford
B. Wollenweber-Ratzer
Affiliation:
Plant Sciences Laboratories, Sir Harold Mitchell Building, St Andrews University, St Andrews, Fife KYI6 9AL, UK
R. M. M. Crawford*
Affiliation:
Plant Sciences Laboratories, Sir Harold Mitchell Building, St Andrews University, St Andrews, Fife KYI6 9AL, UK
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Synopsis

Plants tolerant of long-term flooding and oxygen deprivation in their perennating organs such as rhizomes and tubers are able to avoid the deleterious effects of anoxia and minimise the dangers of re-entry to air by reactions with antioxidants such as ascorbic acid and glutathione. In processes of detoxification of oxygen radicals, ascorbic acid is oxidised to dehydroascorbic acid and reduced glutathione to oxidised glutathione. Through the action of enzymes such as monodehydroascorbate reductase (MR) and dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR), glutathione and ascorbic acid may be regenerated to maintain sufficient levels of antioxidants within the tissue in order to quench oxygen radicals.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 102: Oxygen and Environmental Stress in Plants , 1994 , pp. 381 - 390
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1994

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*Now at: The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK 1871 Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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