Reactive Oxygen Species in Plant Signaling

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rio, Luis Alfonso (Editor), Puppo, Alain (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Signaling and Communication in Plants,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant biochemistry.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant physiology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Biochemistry.; Plant Sciences.

Until recent years the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) was generally considered to be a harmful process and a generator of oxidative stress. But more recently this concept has been re-evaluated and the term "oxidative signaling" was coined (Foyer and Noctor, 2005). This means t...