With the aim of analyzing their protective function against chilling-induced injury, the pools of glutathione and its precursors, cysteine (Cys) and gamma-glutamyl-Cys, were increased in the chilling-sensitive maize (Zea mays) inbred line Penjalinan using a combination of two herbicide safeners. Compared with the controls, the greatest increase in the pool size of the three thiols was detected ...

BACKGROUND Herbicide safening in cereals is linked to a rapid xenobiotic response (XR), involving the induction of glutathione transferases (GSTs). The XR is also invoked by oxidized fatty acids (oxylipins) released during plant stress, suggesting a link between these signalling agents and safening. To examine this relationship, a series of compounds modelled on the oxylipins 12-oxophytodienoic...

M etolachlor and excess Mn:+ (acid soil stress) induce alterations in gibberellin precursor biosynthesis that can explain the morphological responses to these physiological stresses. Oxa­ betrinil protects sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] from the influence o f metolachlor and excess Mn2+. Sorghum cultivar variations in response to excess M n2+ are explicable as dif­ ferential rates o f tv...

Plants respond to synthetic chemicals by eliciting a xenobiotic response (XR) that enhances the expression of detoxifying enzymes such as glutathione transferases (GSTs). In agrochemistry, the ability of safeners to induce an XR is used to increase herbicide detoxification in cereal crops. Based on the responsiveness of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to the rice safener fenclorim (4,6-dic...

The subcellular distribution of glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity extracted from shoots of 3-day-old etiolated seedlings of maize (Zea mays L., Northrup-King 9283 hybrid) and the induction of soluble and membrane-bound GST activity by the safener benoxacor, the herbicide metolachlor and their combination (CGA-180937) were investigated. GST activity extracted from maize shoots was detecte...

The metabolic resistance of plants to herbicides is similar the herbicide metabolism process accelerated by safeners. tolerance fenoxaprop-P-ethyl (FE) distinct among different varieties rice in which phytotoxicity forms easily, resulting restricted use FE paddy. Safener effectively resolves this issue. This study showed that 9311 and Meixiangzhan No. 2 (MXZ) had mechanisms FE. Isoxadifen-ethyl...