The Water-Water Cycle Is Essential for Chloroplast Protection in the Absence of Stress (open access)

The Water-Water Cycle Is Essential for Chloroplast Protection in the Absence of Stress

Article showing that knockdown Arabidopsis plants with suppressed expression of the key water-water cycle enzyme, thylakoid-attached copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (KD-SOD), are suppressed in their growth and development. This article provides e genetic evidence for the importance of the water-water cycle in protecting the photosynthetic apparatus of higher plants from photooxidative damage.
Date: October 3, 2003
Creator: Rizhsky, Ludmila; Liang, Hongjian & Mittler, Ron
System: The UNT Digital Library