“…Aerobic metabolism provides great energetic benefits to organisms but has byproducts such as forms of reactive oxygen species (ROS), including singlet oxygen, superoxide including northern blot analysis/PCR techniques and/or measurements of enzyme activity during stresses, which revealed the ambiguity of the transcription regulation and, in some cases, indirect relationship between changes of mRNA level and enzyme activity during treatment for Nicotiana plumbaginifolia L. (Tsang et al, 1991), Raphanus sativus L. (Lopez et al, 1996), Arabidopsis thaliana L. (Kandlbinder et al, 2004). Recent studies address more precise ways to quantify antioxidant genes using qRT-PCR methods for Musa acuminata L. (Taufikurahman & Widiyanto, 2016) and Solanum tuberosum L. (El-Argawy & Adss, 2016) and also showing advanced techniques of choosing the reference Figure 1 A general scheme of interaction between AOS components including superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPX), ascorbate peroxidase (APX), dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR), monohydroascorbate reductase (MDHAR), glutathione reductase (GR), NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase (NTRC), ascorbate (AsA), monodehydroascorbate (MDHA), dehydroascorbate (DHA), glutathione (GSH), glutathione disulfide (GSSG), reduced (TRX) and oxidized (OX-TRX) forms of thioredoxin, reduced (GRX) and oxidized (OX-GRX) forms of glutaredoxin. Ascorbate-glutathione cycle is indicated as "ASC-GSH cycle".…”