“…Balakumar et al (1997) reported increased catalase activity in tomato plants after UV-B irradiation. Increased peroxidase activity under the influence of UV-B irradiation has been reported frequently in, for example, barley (Mazza et al, 1999), sugar beet (Panagopoulas et al, 1990), sunflower cotyledons (Yanarelli at al., 2006b), long green cucumber cultivar (Kataria et al, 2007), wheat and mung bean (Agrawal and Ratore, 2007), spinach (Lei at al., 2008), Picea asperata seedlings (Han et al, 2009) and peanut (Tang et al, 2010). Sometimes, however, the activity of this enzyme is found to decline when the irradiation dose is too high (Rao et al, 1996).…”