Year: 2016
Pages: 311-322
Number: Volume 8, issue 4
Type: scientific article
Complicated antioxidant system play an important role in the maintenance of intracellular homeostasis and stress resistance of plants. A key component of the plant antioxidant system is glutathione and its related enzymes the best known of which are the glutathione S-transferases. This review devoted to consideration of role of glutathione in plant cells and the functions of enzymes that use glutathione as a substrate during redox reactions. Study of glutathione biosynthetic enzymes and glutathione-S-transferases of great interest in plant biology, as such knowledge in this field can be used in practice to increase the productivity and stress tolerance of crop plants.
reactive oxygen species, glutathione, glutathione synthetase, glutamate cysteine ligase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, glutathione S-transferase, stress tolerance, transgenic plants