Redox State as a Central Regulator of Plant-Cell Stress Responses

Dharmendra K. Gupta is a senior environmental biotechnology scientist at the Institut für Radioökologie und Strahlenschutz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany and has published more than 80 research papers/review articles in peer reviewed journals and has edited nine books. His research interests include abiotic stress by heavy metals/radionuclides and xenobiotics in plants; antioxidative system in plants, and environmental pollution (heavy metal/radionuclide) remediation through plants (phytoremediation).José M. Palma has more than 30 years' experience in plant sciences and related fields. He also served as the deputy director and later director of the Estación Experimental del Zaidín (EEZ-CSIC), Granada, Spain. He has published more than 100 research papers/review articles in peer reviewed journals and edited five books. Francisco J. Corpas is a staff member at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and has more than 24 years of research experience in the metabolism of antioxidants and nitric oxide in higher plants under physiological and adverse environmental conditions. At present, he is the head of the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology of Plants at the research institute Estación Experimental del Zaidín-CSIC in Granada, Spain. He has published more than 120 research papers/review articles in peer reviewed journals and has edited five books.