Hydrogen sulfide: the shutter button of stomata in plants
Hydrogen sulfide: the shutter button of stomata in plants
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硫化氢:植物气孔的快门按钮
DOI:
10.1007/s11427-016-0265-3
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发表时间:
2016-11-01
影响因子:
9.1
通讯作者:
Pei, Yanxi
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作者:
Jin, Zhuping;Pei, Yanxi
In the past few decades, Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has been newly witnessed as a third gasotransmitter with similar biological functions to its two previously identified counterparts nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO), after being recognized as a toxic gas with an unpleasant rotten-egg smell for hundreds of years. Following the recognition of its great pharmacological potential in mammalian (Mani et al., 2015), H2S has also been revealed as a crucial player involved in the regulation of physiological processes in normal plants. It has also been found to be a critical messenger in plant defense responses against a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses at physiological concentrations. The H2S-synthesizing enzymes, located in various subcellular compartments such as the cytoplasm, mitochondria and chloroplast, are more abundant in plants than in animals and show a spatial-temporal expression pattern (Jin and Pei, 2015). Eyes are the windows to the soul. Stomata, pores on the leaf surface, which are the “eyes” of plants, have been demonstrated to actively engage in various cellular aspects under different changing environmental conditions. Stomata open or close in response to environmental stimuli such as atmospheric humidity, light, atmospheric CO2 concentration and plant hormones. It has been reported that H2S responds to drought stress by inducing stomatal closure in