Foreword ........................................................ v
Preface ....................................................... vii
List of Contributors ........................................... xi
1 Sites of Generation and Physicochemical Basis of Formation
of Reactive Oxygen Species in Plant Cell ..................... 1
Soumen Bhattacharjee
2 Multiple Roles of Radicals in Plants ........................ 31
Igor Kovalchuk
3 Reactive Oxygen Species and Ascorbate-Glutathione
Interplay in Signaling and Stress Responses ................. 45
V. Locato, M.C. de Pinto, A. Paradiso and L. De Gara
4 Reactive Oxygen Species and Programmed Cell Death ........... 65
Tsanko Gechev, Veselin Petrov and Ivan Minkov
5 Oxidative Burst-mediated ROS Signaling Pathways Regulating
Tuberization in Potato ...................................... 79
Debabrata Sarkar and Sushruti Sharma
6 ROS Regulation of Antioxidant Genes ........................ 101
Photini V. Mylona and Alexios N. Polidoros
7 The Role of Antioxidant Enzymes during Leaf Development .... 129
Yun-Hee Kim and Sang-Soo Kwak
8 Antioxidants Involvement in the Ageing of Non-green
Organs: The Potato Tuber as a Model ........................ 151
Pierre Delaplace, Marie-Laure Fauconnier and Patrick du
Jardin
9 Metal Toxicity, Oxidative Stress and Antioxidative
Defense System in Plants ................................... 177
R.S. Dubey
10 ROS, Oxidative Stress and Engineering Resistance in
Higher Plants .............................................. 205
Damla D. Bilgin
11 Role of Free Radicals and Antioxidants in in vitro
Morphogenesis .............................................. 229
S. Dutta Gupta
12 ROS as Biomarkers in Hyperhydricity ........................ 249
Nieves Fernandez-Garcia, Jesus Garcia de la Garma and
Enrique Olmos
13 Antioxidant Effects of Plant Polyphenols: A Case Study
of a Polyphenol-rich Extract from Geranium sanguineum L. ... 275
Julia Serkedjieva
14 LC-(Q) TOF-MS Characterization of Phenolic Antioxidants .... 295
Antonio Segura-Carretero, Shaoping Fu, David
Arráez-Román, and Alberto Fernandez-Gutiérrez
15 Antioxidant Properties of Chinese Medicinal Plants ......... 331
Hua-Bin Li, Dan Li, Yuan Zhang, Ren-You Gan, Feng-Lin
Song and Feng Chen
Index ......................................................... 363
Color Plate Section ........................................... 367
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