Ethylene-responsive elements

In plants, DREB/ERF and AP2/ERF subfamily of ethylene-responsive element (GCC box)-binding transcription factors function in the regulation of abiotic stress responses and regulate disease resistance. AP2/ERF members are downstream components of both ethylene and JA signaling pathways, and are key to the... 

EREBP ethylene-response element-binding protein... 

Irritant dermatitis does not involve an immune response and is typically caused by contact with corrosive substances that exhibit extremes of pH, oxidizing capability, dehydrating action, or tendency to dissolve skin lipids. In extreme cases of exposure, skin cells are destroyed and a permanent scar results. This condition is known as a chemical burn. Exposure to concentrated sulfuric acid, which exhibits extreme acidity, or to concentrated nitric acid, which denatures skin protein, can cause bad chemical bums. The strong oxidant action of 30% hydrogen peroxide likewise causes a chemical bum. Other chemicals causing chemical bums include ammonia, quicklime (CaO), chlorine, ethylene oxide, hydrogen halides, methyl bromide, nitrogen oxides, elemental white phosporous, phenol, alkali metal hydroxides (NaOH, KOH), and toluene diisocyanate. 

Garty, J., Kloog, N., Wolfson, R., Cohen, Y., Kamieli, A., Avni, A., 1997d. The influence of air pollution on the concentration of mineral elements, on the spectral reflectance response and on the production of stress-ethylene in the lichen Ramalina duriaei. New Phytol. 137, 587-597. 

Weissman, L., 1998. Factors affecting the production of endogenic ethylene, changes in spectral reflectance response, membranes and chlorophyll integrity and the composition of mineral elements in the lichen Ramalina lacera (With.) J.R. Laund., M.Sc. thesis, Tel Aviv University (in Hebrew). 

Keywords Lichens Chemical elements Ethylene Chlorophyll Spectral reflectance response Photosystem II Adenosine triphosphate Malondialdehyde Protein Amino acids... 

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