“…The reduction of dicarbonyls detoxifies and prevents the formation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs), also known as glycotoxins, associated with development of numerous degenerative human diseases (Chen et al, 2009;Gkogkolou and Bohm, 2012;Kizer et al, 2014). In plants, the build-up of dicarbonyls leads to oxidative stress and cell death resulting in stunted growth (Hoque et al, 2012;Ray et al, 2013;Sankaranarayanan et al, 2015;Li, 2016). One of these dicarbonyls, generated through multiple pathways in plants and animals, is methylglyoxal (Yadav et al, 2005a,b;Hoque et al, 2016;Mostofa et al, 2018).…”