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ReviewPlant signaling & behavior2011

Stress-induced flavonoid biosynthesis and the antioxidant machinery of plants.

Alessio Fini, Cecilia Brunetti, Martina Di Ferdinando, Francesco Ferrini, Massimiliano Tattini

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Review in Plant signaling & behavior, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 150 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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150citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
21.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

150 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 493 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alessio FiniDipartimento di Scienze delle Produzioni Vegetali, del Suolo e dell'Ambiente Agroforestale, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
Cecilia Brunetti
Martina Di Ferdinando
Francesco Ferrini
Massimiliano Tattini
University of Florence · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a growing body of evidence that flavonoids do not primarily function as UV-B screening pigments in photoprotection. Recent findings support the idea that excess light stress, irrespective of the relative proportions of the solar wavebands reaching the leaf surface, up-regulates the biosynthesis of dihydroxy B-ring-substituted flavonoid glycosides, as a consequence of and aimed at countering the generation of ROS. Intriguingly, the very conditions that lead to the inactivation of antioxidant enzymes can also up-regulate the biosynthesis of antioxidant flavonoids, which suggests flavonoids constituting a secondary ROS-scavenging system in plants exposed to severe/prolonged stress conditions. H2O2 may diffuse out of the chloroplast at considerable rates and be transported to the vacuole, the storing site for flavonoids, by tonoplast intrinsic proteins, under severe excess light conditions. We suggest that the unanticipated key role of the vacuole in the ROS homeostasis might be mediated by flavonoids.

Indexed as

Stress, PhysiologicalAntioxidantsFlavonoidsPlantsTime FactorsAntioxidantsFlavonoids

Identifiers

PMID21448007
PMCPMC3172844
OpenAlexW1999447946

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