Salt stress is a severe type of environmental stress. It adversely affects agricultural
production worldwide. The overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is the most …

Ascorbic acid is synthesised by eukaryotes, the known exceptions being primates and some
other animal groups which have lost functional gulonolactone oxidase. Prokaryotes do not …

Over-production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plants under stress conditions is a
common phenomenon. Plants tend to counter this problem through their ability to synthesize …

On the basis of its generally accessible I/II redox couple and bioavailability, copper plays a
wide variety of roles in nature that mostly involve electron transfer (ET), O 2 binding …

Concentrations of ground‐level ozone ([O3]) over much of the Earth's land surface have
more than doubled since pre‐industrial times. The air pollutant is highly variable over time …

Plant‐derived Vitamin C (l‐ascorbic acid (AsA)) is crucial for human health and wellbeing
and thus increasing AsA content is of interest to plant breeders. In plants GDP‐l‐galactose …

While the chemical nature of reactive oxygen species (ROS) dictates that they are potentially
harmful to cells, recent genetic evidence suggests that in planta purely physicochemical …

Cold stress seriously affects plant development, resulting in heavy agricultural losses. L-
ascorbic acid (AsA, vitamin C) is an antioxidant implicated in abiotic stress tolerance and …

The CBF cold response pathway has a prominent role in cold acclimation. The pathway
includes action of three transcription factors, CBF1, 2 and 3 (also known as DREB1b, c and …

Ascorbate (ASC) plays a critical role in plant stress response. The antioxidant role of ASC
has been well-studied, but there are still several confusing questions about the function of …