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Oxidative stress

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Stress and Stress Coping in Cultivated Plants

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One of the paradoxes of life on this planet is that the molecule that sustains aerobic life, oxygen, is not only fundamentally essential for energy metabolism and respiration, but it has been implicated in many diseases and degenerative conditions (Marx 1985). A common element in such diverse human disorders as aging, arthritis, cancer, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and many others. is the involvement of partially reduced forms of oxygen. Through many of the subsequent chapters in this book, the involvement of oxygen in disorders and stress-induced dysfunctions in cultivated plants will be discussed. Our realization of the significance of oxygen in these stress responses is recent due in no small part to the difficulty in detecting and tracing oxygen molecules, to the multitude of forms and intermediates that oxygen can assume, and to the extreme reactivity and rate of the chemical reactions involved. As a consequence we often in our experiments can only look for the “footprints” of oxygen reactions in our attempts to determine cause-effect relationships in stress responses. The following chapter describes our current understanding of the general principles of oxygen free radicals, which is more appropriately termed activated oxygen. The involvement of activated oxygen in each of the environmental stresses is discussed in the relevant chapter.

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Mckersie, B.D., Leshem, Y.Y. (1994). Oxidative stress. In: Stress and Stress Coping in Cultivated Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3093-8_2

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