Ascorbic Acid in Plant Growth, Development and Stress Tolerance (PDF)

temperatures, as well as the ecophysiology of invasive plants. He has co-authored 180 peerreviewed SCI-indexed journal articles, 17 book chapters and 3 books. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental and Experimental Botany from Elsevier.







David J. Burritt is an associate professor in the Department of Botany, the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Hons) in botany and his Ph.D. in plant biotechnology from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. His research interests include oxidative stress and redox biology, plant-based foods and bioactive molecules, plant breeding and biotechnology, cryopreservation of germplasm and the stress biology of plants, animals and algae. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has edited 3 books for Springer and 2 for Elsevier.







Pedro Diaz-Vivancos is a professor in the Department of Plant Biology, Murcia University (Murcia, Spain). Heis also linked to the Plant Breeding Department at CEBAS-CSIC (Murcia, Spain). He received his B.Sc. in biological sciences from the University of Murcia and his Ph.D. in 2007 in agricultural and food technology from the University of Cartagena (Spain). He has worked during the period of 2008-2009 at Newcastle and Leeds Universities (UK) as a postdoctoral scientist on the role of glutathione in the regulation of cell proliferation and plant development. His main research interests are the study of the role of the antioxidative metabolism in plant development and in plant stress responses, including the induction of tolerance against environmental stresses in plum plants by increasing their antioxidant capacity by genetic engineering. He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and 2 book chapters. He has edited two book volumes for Springer including this one.







Masayuki Fujita is a professor in the Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan. He received his B.Sc. in chemistry from Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, and his M.Agr. and Ph.D. in plant biochemistry from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. His research interests include physiological, biochemical and molecular biological responses based on secondary metabolism in plants under biotic (pathogenic fungal infection) and abiotic (salinity, drought, extreme temperatures and heavy metals) stresses, phytoalexin, cytochrome P-450, glutathione S transferase, phytochelatin and redox reaction and antioxidants. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has edited 2 books for Springer including this one.





Argelia Lorence is the James and Wanda Lee Vaughn endowed professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Arkansas State University (A-State) in Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA, where she also leads the A-State Plant Phenomics Facility. Lorence received a B.Sc. in biochemical engineering from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa (UAM-I), Mexico. She earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biotechnology from the Institute of Biotechnology of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM). Prior to joining A-State, Lorence was a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M and at Virginia Tech. The most significant contribution Prof. Lorence has made to plant sciences has been the discovery of a novel biosynthetic pathway for ascorbate that involves myo inositol as main precursor. Her laboratory uses Arabidopsis to better understand the role of various subcellular pools of ascorbate in plant physiology. In addition to Arabidopsis, her current models of study include rice, soybean, tobacco and maize. Her research interests include ascorbate metabolism, redox biology, plant phenomics and the study of plant's responses to stresses using high-throughput phenotyping approaches to develop crops with enhanced resilience. She has over 50 peer-reviewed publications and 3 patents and has edited special issues of peer-reviewed journals (e.g. Functional Plant Biology) and 3 books, one published by Humana Press and two published by Springer including this one.