Table 1.

CAT cDNA isolated and characterised from different plant species.

Plant Species	Common Name	Genomic DNA or Protein	Subcellular Localisation and Site of Detection in Plant	References
Brassica napus	Rapeseed	CAT1–CAT14	Peroxisomes (CAT2–CAT3, CAT6–CAT8, CAT11–CAT14), cytoskeleton (CAT1), cytoplasm (CAT4), mitochondrion (CAT9), and chloroplast (CAT5, CAT10) in root, leaf, stem, and silique samples	[89]
Helianthus annus	Sunflower	CAT1–CAT8	Peroxisomes in cotyledons and roots	[90,91,92]
Gossypium hirsutum	Cotton	CAT1–CAT7	Peroxisomes in leaves	[78,93]
Pisum sativum	Pea	CAT1–CAT5	Peroxisomes in leaves and the whole fruit	[94,95]
Cucumis sativus	Cucumber	CAT1–CAT4	Peroxisomes in roots, stem, leaves, flowers, and fruits	[79]
Oryza sativa L.	Rice	OsCATA–OsCATD	Cytosol (OsCATA–OsCATC), peroxisomes (OsCATB, OsCATC), and plasma membrane (OsCATD) in immature seeds and rice seedlings	[80,96,97]
Nicotiana plumbaginofolia	Tex-Mex tobacco	CAT1–CAT3	Peroxisomes in leaves	[84]
Arabidopsis thaliana	Arabidopsis	CAT1–CAT3	Peroxisomes in bolts, leaves, siliques (CAT1, CAT2), in pollen and seeds (CAT1), stems and roots (CAT3)	[81,98,99,100,101]
Cucurpita pepo	Pumpkin	CAT1–CAT3	Glyoxysomes in seeds and early seedlings (CAT1), mature leaves, stem (CAT2), green cotyledons and green hypocotyls (CAT2, CAT3), and roots (CAT3)	[82]
Glycine max	Soybean	CAT1–CAT3	Glyoxysomes in developing kernels (CAT1), green leaves (CAT2, CAT3), roots (CAT3), and epicotyl of the developing seedlings (CAT3)	[102]
Zea mays	Maize	CAT1–CAT3	In scutella, milky endosperm of immature kernels, leaves and epicotyls (CAT1); Post-germinative scutella, with lower levels in leaves, epicotyls and growing kernels (CAT2); Epicotyls and, to a lesser extent, in leaves and scutella (CAT3)	[83,103,104,105,106,107]
Capsicum annuum	Hot pepper	CAT1–CAT3	Peroxisomes in leaf and stem	[108]
Nicotiana tabacum	Tobacco	CAT1–CAT3	Peroxisomes in leaves	[109,110]
Ricinus cammunis	Castor bean	CAT1, CAT2	Glyoxysomes, peroxisomes in hypocotyls and roots (CAT2), in endosperms and cotyledons (CAT1)	[88,111]
Hurdeom vulgare	Barley	CAT1, CAT2	Peroxisomes in whole endosperms, in isolated aleurones and in developing seeds (CAT1), in etiolated seedling shoots and leaf blades (CAT2)	[85]
Triticum aestivum	Wheat	CAT1, CAT2	Peroxisomes in leaves	[112]
Solanum tuberosum	Potato	CAT1, CAT2	Peroxisomes in leaves	[113,114]
Lycopersicum sculentum	Tomato	CAT1, CAT2	Peroxisomes in leaves	[86,115,116]
Nicotiana sylvestris	Woodland tobacco	CAT1, CAT4	Peroxisomes in leaves	[117]
Vigna radiata	Mung bean	CAT1	Glyoxysomes, leaf peroxisomes, and nonspecialised microbodies (etiolated or nongreen tissues)	[118]
Secale cereale	Rye	CAT1	Peroxisomes in leaves	[119]
Ipomoea batatas	Sweet potato	CAT1	Peroxisomes in leaves	[87,120]