Arabidopsis thaliana
. Three-week-old plants were exposed to a high temperature (30 C), an enhanced light intensity (200 μE/m2/sec), water deficiency (water deprivation for 2 days), a chilling temperature (5 C), or ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation (0.25 or 0.094 W/m2) for 1 week (except for water deficiency). The high temperature and enhanced light treatments increased only dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR) activity. Water deficiency enhanced the activities of DHAR and guaiacol peroxidase (PER). Chilling temperature increased the activities of ascorbate peroxidase (APX) and glutathione reductase (GR), whereas it decreased catalase (CAT) activity. UV-B at an intensity of 0.25 W/m2 elevated the activities of APX, monodehydroascorbate reductase (MDHAR), GR, PER and superoxide dismutase (SOD). It was suggested that the amounts of phenylpropanoid compounds increased during treatments of plants with enhanced light intensity, chilling temperature, and UV-B. These results suggest that some differences exist among the oxidative stress conditions caused by the different treatments, although all of these treatments seem to be related to active oxygen production. We propose that in A. thaliana, environmental stresses may be classified into those which induce DHAR activity and those which induce APX activity.
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Received 11 January 1999/ Accepted in revised form 22 April 1999
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Kubo, A., Aono, M., Nakajima, N. et al. Differential Responses in Activity of Antioxidant Enzymes to Different Environmental Stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana . J Plant Res 112, 279–290 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00013884
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00013884