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Stress responses to phenol in Arabidopsis and transcriptional changes revealed by microarray analysis

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Phenols are toxic, environmentally persistent products of the chemical industry that are capable of bioaccumulation and biomagnifications in the food chain. Little is known of how plants respond to this compound. To understand the transcriptional changes under phenol, microarray experiments on Arabidopsis thaliana were performed. Microarray results revealed numerous perturbations in signaling and metabolic pathways. The results indicated that the phenol response was related to reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation and oxidative conditions, including ROS generated for pathogen defense.

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Abbreviations

ROS:

Reactive oxygen species

SOD:

Superoxide dismutase

CAT:

Catalases

POD:

Peroxidase

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The research was supported financially by Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (2009), the Key Project Fund of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of Agriculture (No. 2008-7-5), Shanghai Natural Science Fund (11ZR1432400) and the Development Fund of Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences [Nongkefa 2011(10)].

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    Jing Xu, Chen Chen, Hong-Juan Han, Bo Zhu, Xiao-Yan Fu, Wei Zhao, Xiao-Fen Jin & Quan-Hong Yao

  2. College of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Zhen-Hong Su & Ai-Zhong Wu

  3. Fruits Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2901 Beidi Rd, Shanghai, 201106, China

    Zhen-Hong Su

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Xu, J., Su, ZH., Chen, C. et al. Stress responses to phenol in Arabidopsis and transcriptional changes revealed by microarray analysis. Planta 235, 399–410 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-011-1498-5

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