TY - CHAP AV - restricted A1 - Chakradhar, T A1 - Mahanty, S A1 - Reddy, R A A1 - Divya, K A1 - Reddy, P S TI - Biotechnological Perspective of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)-Mediated Stress Tolerance in Plants UR - http://oar.icrisat.org/10143/ SN - 978-981-10-5253-8 PB - Springer CY - Singapore N1 - PSR acknowledges the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, for the fellowship and research grant through the INSPIRE Faculty Award and Young Scientist Scheme. ED - Khan, M I R ED - Khan, N A N2 - All environmental cues lead to develop secondary stress conditions like osmotic and oxidative stress conditions that reduces average crop yields by more than 50% every year. The univalent reduction of molecular oxygen (O2) in metabolic reactions consequently produces superoxide anions (O2??) and other reactive oxygen species (ROS) ubiquitously in all compartments of the cell that disturbs redox potential and causes threat to cellular organelles. The production of ROS further increases under stress conditions and especially in combination with high light intensity. Plants have evolved different strategies to minimize the accumulation of excess ROS like avoidance mechanisms such as physiological adaptation, efficient photosystems such as C4 or CAM metabolism and scavenging mechanisms through production of antioxidants and antioxidative enzymes. Ascorbate-glutathione pathway plays an important role in detoxifying excess ROS in plant cells, which includes superoxide dismutase (SOD) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) in detoxifying O2??radical and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) respectively, monodehydroascorbate reductase (MDHAR), dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR) and glutathione reductase (GR) involved in recycling of reduced substrates such as ascorbate and glutathione. Efficient ROS management is one of the strategies used by tolerant plants to survive and perform cellular activities under stress conditions. The present chapter describes different sites of ROS generation and and their consequences under abiotic stress conditions and also described the approaches to overcome oxidative stress through genomics and genetic engineering. KW - Ascorbate-glutathione cycle KW - Abiotic stress KW - Oxidative stress KW - Reactive oxygen species KW - Stress Tolerance in Plants KW - Genomics KW - Genetic engineering Y1 - 2017/08// SP - 53 T2 - Reactive Oxygen Species and Antioxidant Systems in Plants: Role and Regulation under Abiotic Stress ID - icrisat10143 EP - 87 ER -