. 2019 Mar 27;25(3):649–665. doi: 10.1007/s12298-019-00656-6

Table 1.

Dose-dependent effect of imbibitional oxidative stress (IOS) and chilling stress (ICS) on the efficacy of ascorbate–glutathione cycle [assessed in terms of accumulation of ascorbate, glutathione and activities of glutathione reductase (GR), monodehydroascorbatereductase (MDHAR) and dehydroascorbatereductase (DHAR)]

Treatment	Ascorbate (µmol g⁻¹ dm)	Glutathione (µmol g⁻¹ dm)	Activities of ascorbate–glutathione cycle enzymes (Ug⁻¹ dm h⁻¹)
Treatment	Ascorbate (µmol g⁻¹ dm)	Glutathione (µmol g⁻¹ dm)	MDHAR	DHAR	GR
Untreated Control	67.5 ± 0.17	6.5 ± 0.04	0.56 ± 0.004	0.38 ± 0.002	0.325 ± 0.002
IOS (20 mM H₂O₂)	48.2 ± ± 0.11**	4.3 ± 0.05*	0.39 ± 0.007*	0.27 ± ± 0.004*	0.205 ± 0.001**
IOS (500 µM H₂O₂)	74.3 ± 0.19*	7.9 ± 0.07**	0.72 ± 0.004**	0.50 ± 0.007**	0.390 ± 0.004*
ICS	46.5 ± 0.21**	5.2 ± 0.03**	0.41 ± 0.004*	0.25 ± 0.001**	0.160 ± 0.001*

Results are mean of three replicates ± standard error. *Significant from control at 0.05 level (t test); **significant from control at 0.01 level (t test)