Light plays a fundamental role in the growth and development of plants. It serves as an essential energy source for photosynthesis and also influences various physiological processes, including seed ...

TRACER experiments indicate that different substances (carbohydrates, proteins, lipids) are synthesized in plants, even after a short exposure to 14 CO 2 (ref. 1). Therefore, although photosynthesis ...

This study examined the effect of increasing chloroplastic superoxide dismutase (SOD), ascorbate peroxidase (APX), or glutathione reductase (GR) activity via plant transformation of cotton on the ...