Bryophytes are poikilohydric organisms that can be used as model plants to study desiccation tolerance mechanisms. The main objective of this was examine the activities antioxidant enzymes ascorbate peroxidase (APX), catalase (CAT) and guaiacol (POD) in rehydrated desiccated states Syntrichia ruralis (Hedw.) Web. & Mohr. from two slopes, one North-east (NE) South-west (SW) facing collected ...

to find out the effect of sodium nitroprusside (snp) in reducing oxidative damage induced by salinity stress in barley seedlings, a crd based factorial experiment with three replications was conducted in agronomy laboratory of the faculty of agricultural sciences, university of guilan, in 2012. the experimental design consisted of two snp levels (0.1 and 0.2 mm snp; as nitric oxide (no) donor) ...

Superoxide dismutase (SOD), guaiacol peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT), and the comet assay (SCGE) were used as biomarkers to evaluate the oxidative stress and genotoxicity of toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene in earthworms (Eisenia fetida). The results indicated that the exposure of the three pollutants caused a stress response of the three enzymes, an approximate bell-shaped change (a tendency ...

Basal stem rot, caused by the basidiomycete fungus, Ganoderma boninense, is an economically devastating disease in Malaysia. Our study investigated the changes in lignin content and composition along with activity and expression of the phenylpropanoid pathway enzymes and genes in oil palm root tissues during G. boninense infection. We sampled control (non-inoculated) and infected (inoculated) s...

Investigations were carried out to study the effects of selected blanching treatments on the quality of carrots over a temperature range of 80–100C. The blanching treatments selected were steam, water, 0.05 N acetic acid solution and 0.2% calcium chloride solution. These blanching treatments were evaluated with respect to the inactivation time of peroxidase (POD) and catalase, and the process w...

The jasmonic acid (JA) pathway plays a key role in plant defense responses against herbivorous insects. CORONATINE INSENSITIVE1 (COI1) is an F-box protein essential for all jasmonate responses. However, the precise defense function of COI1 in monocotyledonous plants, especially in rice (Oryza sativa L.) is largely unknown. We silenced OsCOI1 in rice plants via RNA interference (RNAi) to determi...

The photosynthetic performance of the canopy boll-leaf system (BLS) reflects material and energy exchange abilities between plant external environment. A two-year field experiment determined response to irrigation regimes [600 (W1), 480 (W2), 360 (W3) m3 ha-1] cotton BLS physio-biochemical traits. Decreasing irrigation, photochemical quenching coefficient, electron transfer rate PSII, chlorophy...

We investigated the impact of drought and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi on the morphological structure and physiological function of shoots and roots of male and female seedlings of the dioecious plant Populus cathayana Rehder. Pot-grown seedlings were subjected to well watered or water-limiting conditions (drought) and were grown in soil that was either inoculated or not inoculated with th...

Antibacterial Strategies An innovative nanozyme-armed phage (phage@Pd) system is fabricated for combating bacterial infection, as reported by Zhengwei Mao and co-workers in article number 2301349. The phage@Pd preserves the function of phages to achieve precise recognition adhesion bacteria. ultrasmall palladium (Pd) nanozymes equipped with conspicuous pH-dependent peroxidase (POD)-like activit...