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8 March 2022 Appraisal of functional significance of sulfur assimilatory products in plants under elevated metal accumulation
Bilal A. Rather, Iqbal R. Mir, Harsha Gautam, Arif Majid, Naser A. Anjum, Asim Masood, Nafees A. Khan
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Abstract

Plants varyingly serve as control agents for heavy metal loads in environmental compartments, including soils, by accumulating and partitioning most heavy metals in their organs. However, by doing this wonderful job, the plant health and productivity get affected because of the elevated cellular heavy metals. Therefore, exploration of approaches for strengthening plant's tolerance to cellular heavy metals is very imperative. As an indispensable macronutrient in plants, sulfur (S) is widely known to assist numerous plant functions and is also argued as vital element for various plant metabolic processes both in normal and stressed conditions. However, the discussion on the heavy metal-specific roles of S-containing compounds in plants have been considered least. In this paper, the aspects discussed included the following: (1) heavy metals and their relation with plants; and nutrient-management and S in control of metal stress-impacts in plants are introduced; (2) major insights into S-assimilation and -assimilatory products are overviewed; (3) important roles of assimilatory products in plant tolerance to common heavy metals are highlighted, and (4) metal-specific influence on assimilatory products in plants are discussed.

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Bilal A. Rather, Iqbal R. Mir, Harsha Gautam, Arif Majid, Naser A. Anjum, Asim Masood, and Nafees A. Khan "Appraisal of functional significance of sulfur assimilatory products in plants under elevated metal accumulation," Crop and Pasture Science 73(5), 573-584, (8 March 2022). https://doi.org/10.1071/CP21437
Received: 23 June 2021; Accepted: 17 August 2021; Published: 8 March 2022
KEYWORDS
abiotic stress
glutathione
heavy metals
mitigation
non-protein thiols
sulfur nutrition
sulfur-compounds
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