Nitric Oxide in Plants - Occurrence and Function
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780792360889
Subjects: Developmental biology; Plant reproduction & propagation; Plant Biochemistry; Phytochemistry; Science; Science/Mathematics; Flowers; Life Sciences - Biochemistry; Life Sciences - Botany; Science / Botany; Nitric oxide; Botanical chemistry
First sentence: In the recent live years one of the most vigorously researched and intriguing entities of biological chemistry is nitrogen monoxide or nitric oxide (NO, often also abbreviated as NO' to indicate that it is a free radical), a potentially toxic, relatively unstable, free radical gas which has emerged to be a major factor in several pivotal regulatory pathways.