Role of L-ascorbate in alleviating abiotic stresses in crop plants

Tiller number is altered in the ascorbic acid-deficient rice suppressed for l-galactono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase

(2013) Yonghai Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Gene Knockout Study Reveals That Cytosolic Ascorbate Peroxidase 2(OsAPX2) Plays a Critical Role in Growth and Reproduction in Rice under Drought, Salt and Cold Stresses

(2013) Zhiguo Zhang et al.   PLoS One

Ascorbate as seen through plant evolution: the rise of a successful molecule?

(2012) Noé Gest et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Genetic Transformation and Analysis of Rice OsAPx2 Gene in Medicago sativa

(2012) Qingjie Guan et al.   PLoS One

Alternative pathways of dehydroascorbic acid degradationin vitroand in plant cell cultures: novel insights into vitamin C catabolism

(2011) Harriet T. Parsons et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Transgenic potato overproducing l-ascorbic acid resisted an increase in methylglyoxal under salinity stress via maintaining higher reduced glutathione level and glyoxalase enzyme activity

(2011) Chandrama Prakash Upadhyaya et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Ascorbic acid is a key participant during the interactions between chloroplasts and mitochondria to optimize photosynthesis and protect against photoinhibition

(2011) Saikrishna Talla et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES

Involvement of cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase and Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase for improved tolerance against drought stress

(2011) M. Faize et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Regulation of L-ascorbic acid content in strawberry fruits

(2011) Eduardo Cruz-Rus et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Translocation and the alternative D-galacturonate pathway contribute to increasing the ascorbate level in ripening tomato fruits together with the D-mannose/L-galactose pathway

(2011) Adebanjo Ayobamidele Badejo et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Ascorbate peroxidase-related (APx-R) is a new heme-containing protein functionally associated with ascorbate peroxidase but evolutionarily divergent

(2011) Fernanda Lazzarotto et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Overexpression of SsCHLAPXs confers protection against oxidative stress induced by high light in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana

(2011) Cai-Hong Pang et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Tobacco chloroplast transformants expressing genes encoding dehydroascorbate reductase, glutathione reductase, and glutathione-S-transferase, exhibit altered anti-oxidant metabolism and improved abiotic stress tolerance

(2011) Bénédicte Le Martret et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Enhancing ascorbate in fruits and tubers through over-expression of the l-galactose pathway gene GDP-l-galactose phosphorylase

(2011) Sean Bulley et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Overexpression in tobacco of a tomato GMPase gene improves tolerance to both low and high temperature stress by enhancing antioxidation capacity

(2011) Hua-Sen Wang et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

The Physiological Role of Ascorbate as Photosystem II Electron Donor: Protection against Photoinactivation in Heat-Stressed Leaves

(2011) S. Z. Toth et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Constitutively expressed DHAR and MDHAR influence fruit, but not foliar ascorbate levels in tomato

(2011) Victor M. Haroldsen et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

A salt-inducible chloroplastic monodehydroascorbate reductase from halophyte Avicennia marina confers salt stress tolerance on transgenic plants

(2010) Kumaresan Kavitha et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Apoplastic ascorbate contributes to the differential ozone sensitivity in two varieties of winter wheat under fully open-air field conditions

(2010) Zhaozhong Feng et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Increased Vitamin C Content Accompanied by an Enhanced Recycling Pathway Confers Oxidative Stress Tolerance inArabidopsis

(2010) Zinan Wang et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Ascorbic acid contents in transgenic potato plants overexpressing two dehydroascorbate reductase genes

(2010) Aiguo Qin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

Cytosolic APx knockdown indicates an ambiguous redox responses in rice

(2010) Sílvia B. Rosa et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Over-expression of StAPX in tobacco improves seed germination and increases early seedling tolerance to salinity and osmotic stresses

(2010) Wei-Hong Sun et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

Overexpression of SlGMEs leads to ascorbate accumulation with enhanced oxidative stress, cold, and salt tolerance in tomato

(2010) Chanjuan Zhang et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

Enhanced ascorbic acid accumulation in transgenic potato confers tolerance to various abiotic stresses

(2009) Hemavathi et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

VTC4 Is a Bifunctional Enzyme That Affects Myoinositol and Ascorbate Biosynthesis in Plants

(2009) J. Torabinejad et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

AMR1, an Arabidopsis Gene That Coordinately and Negatively Regulates the Mannose/L-Galactose Ascorbic Acid Biosynthetic Pathway

(2009) W. Zhang et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Experimental Evidence for Ascorbate-Dependent Electron Transport in Leaves with Inactive Oxygen-Evolving Complexes

(2009) S. Z. Toth et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Overexpression of dehydroascorbate reductase, but not monodehydroascorbate reductase, confers tolerance to aluminum stress in transgenic tobacco

(2009) Lina Yin et al.   PLANTA

Transgenic multivitamin corn through biofortification of endosperm with three vitamins representing three distinct metabolic pathways

(2009) S. Naqvi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diverse roles for chloroplast stromal and thylakoid-bound ascorbate peroxidases in plant stress responses

(2008) Saijaliisa Kangasjärvi et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Detoxification and repair process of ozone injury: From O3 uptake to gene expression adjustment

(2008) A. Castagna et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

ArabidopsisPhosphomannose Isomerase 1, but Not Phosphomannose Isomerase 2, Is Essential for Ascorbic Acid Biosynthesis

(2008) Takanori Maruta et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Quality Control of Photosystem II

(2008) Amu Yamashita et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Ascorbate Peroxidase 1 Plays a Key Role in the Response ofArabidopsis thalianato Stress Combination

(2008) Shai Koussevitzky et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Altered stomatal dynamics in ascorbate oxidase over-expressing tobacco plants suggest a role for dehydroascorbate signalling

(2008) Vasileios Fotopoulos et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Tomato fruit ascorbic acid content is linked with monodehydroascorbate reductase activity and tolerance to chilling stress

(2008) R. STEVENS et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

An expression analysis of the ascorbate biosynthesis enzyme VTC2

(2008) Patricia Müller-Moulé   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

l-Ascorbate biosynthesis in higher plants: the role of VTC2

(2008) Carole L. Linster et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Ultraviolet-B-induced oxidative stress and antioxidant defense system responses in ascorbate-deficient vtc1 mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana

(2007) Qian Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY