title: Redox Strategies for Crop Improvement.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Recently, the agro-biotech industry has been driven by overcoming the limitations imposed by fluctuating environmental stress conditions on crop productivity. A common theme among (a)biotic stresses is the perturbation of the redox homeostasis.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  As a strategy to engineer stress-tolerant crops, many approaches have been centered on restricting the negative impact of reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In this study, we discuss the scientific background of the existing redox-based strategies to improve crop performance and quality. In this respect, a special focus goes to summarizing the current patent landscape because this aspect is very often ignored, despite constituting the forefront of applied research.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The current increased understanding of ROS acting as signaling molecules has opened new avenues to exploit redox biology for crop improvement required for sustainable food security.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plant Systems Biology , VIB, Ghent, Belgium .|2 Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University , Ghent, Belgium .
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kerchev
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plant Systems Biology , VIB, Ghent, Belgium .|2 Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University , Ghent, Belgium .|3 Structural Biology Research Center , VIB, Brussels, Belgium .|4 Brussels Center for Redox Biology , Brussel, Belgium .|5 Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Brussel, Belgium .
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: De Smet
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plant Systems Biology , VIB, Ghent, Belgium .|2 Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University , Ghent, Belgium .|3 Structural Biology Research Center , VIB, Brussels, Belgium .|4 Brussels Center for Redox Biology , Brussel, Belgium .|5 Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Brussel, Belgium .
authors.forename: Cezary
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Waszczak
authors.affiliation: 3 Structural Biology Research Center , VIB, Brussels, Belgium .|4 Brussels Center for Redox Biology , Brussel, Belgium .|5 Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Brussel, Belgium .
authors.forename: Joris
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Messens
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plant Systems Biology , VIB, Ghent, Belgium .|2 Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University , Ghent, Belgium .
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Van Breusegem
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000069599:Crop Production; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000502:physiology*; D060467:Disease Resistance; D005523:Food Supply; D024861:Genetic Enhancement; D006801:Humans; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified / Q000235:genetics; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000378:metabolism; D013312:Stress, Physiological
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species