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Role sacharidového metabolismu v obraně proti oxidativnímu stresu vyvolanému působením arsenu. / Role of carbohydrate metabolism in defence against oxidative stress induced by arsenic

Heavy metal contamination significantly reduces crop yields, causing serious problems in agriculture and having a major impact on human health if these contaminants enter the food chain. Understanding the mechanisms of plant responses could help to increase their resistance to heavy metals as well as their potential use in phytoremediation. Carbohydrates play an important role in plant growth and development as well as in defense reactions. This work summarizes the results of four publications focused on the effects of arsenic and thorium on antioxidant mechanisms in tobacco plants and horseradish root crops. Attention is paid, among other things, to the dynamics of sugar contents, which are potentially important molecules involved in the fight against oxidative stress. The first publication summarizes arsenic effects on plant physiological parameters, focusing on arsenic tolerance-enhancing mechanisms as well as summarizing the ability of plants to cope with arsenic-induced oxidative and nitrosative stress. Emphasis was placed on, among other things, a topic that was unjustly neglected in previous publications - i.e. carbohydrate metabolism. Further work was already experimental and dealt with the study of arsenic as a trigger of oxidative stress in the root culture of horseradish and...

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:404722
Date January 2019
CreatorsKofroňová, Monika
ContributorsLipavská, Helena, Száková, Jiřina, Kovalíková, Zuzana
Source SetsCzech ETDs
LanguageCzech
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

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