Similarities Between Quality and Health Promoting Compounds as a Result to Stress

L. Tijskens; M. Simčič; R. Schouten

doi:10.2478/v10032-007-0001-0

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Similarities Between Quality and Health Promoting Compounds as a Result to Stress

Journal of Fruit and Ornamental Plant Research

Volume 66 (2007): Issue 1 (June 2007)

By: L. Tijskens, M. Simčič and R. Schouten

Open Access

|Sep 2007

Abstract

Antioxidants are produce by plants as a defence mechanism against stress. It is not unlikely that quality related properties are related to that stress induced production system (secondary metabolites). Based on purely theoretical considerations and on scarce information from literature and experts, a highly speculative model was developed to investigate the possible importance of stress levels on the production of health promoting compounds and quality related properties. Simulations with that model, using completely arbitrary parameter values showed that a relation exist between applied stress and production of these beneficiary compounds.

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