Antioxidants and Antioxidant Enzymes in Higher Plants

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PRELIMINARY Unique compilation of information on antioxidants and antioxidant enzymes in plantsHighlights antioxidants and their role in signaling and stress physiologyAlso useful to researchers and students specializing in plant enzyme technology

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Dharmendra K. Gupta is Sr. Scientist of environmental biotechnology/radioecology and already published more than 80 refereed research papers/review articles in peer reviewed journals and edited eleven books. His field of research includes abiotic stress by radionuclides/heavy metals and xenobiotics in plants; antioxidative system in plants, environmental pollution (radionuclides/heavy metals) remediation through plants (phytoremediation). José Manuel Palma is Research Professor of antioxidants and free radicals in plant system and published more than 100 peer reviewed research papers and articles, and also edited five books from different publishers including three from Springer, and several special issues of diverse international journals. At present he is involved in the investigation of the interaction between nitric oxide and antioxidants during fruit ripening. He leads the research group Antioxidants, Free Radicals and Nitric Oxide in Biotechnology, Food and Agriculture at the Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Granada, Spain. He was also Deputy Director and Acting Director of such institute in the period 2007-2014.  Francisco J. Corpas is a staff member of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) which has more than 25 years of research experience in the metabolism of antioxidants and nitric oxide (NO) in higher plants under physiological and adverse environmental conditions. At present, he is the Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology of Plants at Research Institute named Estación Experimental del Zaidín-CSIC, Granada Spain. He already published more than 150 refereed research papers/review articles in peer reviewed journals (according with Scopus database) and edited seven books.

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