Open AccessDetoxification without Intoxication: Herbicide Safeners Activate Plant Defense Gene Expression
Author(s) -
Dean E. Riechers,
Klaus Kreuz,
Qin Zhang
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
plant physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.554
H-Index - 312
eISSN - 1532-2548
pISSN - 0032-0889
DOI - 10.1104/pp.110.153601
Subject(s) - detoxification (alternative medicine) , gene expression , gene , biology , chemistry , pharmacology , biochemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Plants are frequently exposed to natural and synthetic toxins such as heavy metals, allelochemicals, organic pollutants, and pesticides. Consequently, plants must mount specific and coordinated defense mechanisms for survival under adverse growing conditions ([Zhang et al., 2007][1]). One such
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