Abstract
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a potent gaseous transmitter in plants, has myriads of positive roles, which involves a boost on plant growth and development and execution of plant stress tolerance mechanisms. Initially this molecule was rather considered as a toxin to the plant system, but presently it has been proved that H2S has immense role to play in abiotic stress responses in plants. Exposure of a plant to any form of abiotic stress leads to alteration of the cellular osmotic potential and activation of oxidative stress circuits. H2S signalling and metabolism can modulate the stress tolerance response and osmotic adjustment in plants to combat the adverse circumstances of different forms of abiotic stresses including drought, high and low temperature, salinity, water logging, hypoxic conditions, metal toxicity, etc. In order to bring about osmotic adjustment in plants, H2S can induce the accumulation of a range of plant osmolytes like proline, glycine betaine, polyamines, sugars, inorganic ions, etc. These osmolytes can in turn lead to stabilization of the differences in the osmotic potential between the cellular interior and the surroundings in response to the prevailing abiotic stress.
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Roychoudhury, A., Chakraborty, S. (2021). Effect of Hydrogen Sulfide on Osmotic Adjustment of Plants Under Different Abiotic Stresses. In: Khan, M.N., Siddiqui, M.H., Alamri, S., Corpas, F.J. (eds) Hydrogen Sulfide and Plant Acclimation to Abiotic Stresses. Plant in Challenging Environments, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73678-1_5
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