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Nitric Oxide and Other Signaling Molecules: A Cross Talk in Response to Abiotic Stress

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Nitric oxide (NO), an easily diffusible bioactive molecule, has emerged as a biological messenger in plants. The study of NO has contributed to a better knowledge of many mechanisms and functions that were not well understood until very recently. NO may act as a signal molecule in multiple physiological processes in plants such as seed germination, plant maturation and senescence, floral transition, stomatal movement, lateral and adventitious root development. Depending upon the concentration and location in the plant cells, potential roles of NO as a regulator of many abiotic stresses have been identified. NO functions as a signaling molecule that mediates plant responses to various stimuli. Intracellular signaling responses to NO under stresses involve synthesis of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), cyclic ADP ribose (cADPR), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), elevation of cytosolic calcium (Ca2+), and so on. In this chapter, our goal is to highlight the recent advances in NO signal transduction and its interactions with other signaling molecules in response to abiotic stress.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31160398), the Post Doctoral Foundation of China (Nos. 20100470887, 2012T50828), the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (No. 211182), and the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. 20116202120005).

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  3. Plant Physiology Section,Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

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Liao, WB., Yu, JH. (2014). Nitric Oxide and Other Signaling Molecules: A Cross Talk in Response to Abiotic Stress. In: Khan, M., Mobin, M., Mohammad, F., Corpas, F. (eds) Nitric Oxide in Plants: Metabolism and Role in Stress Physiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06710-0_11

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