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Regulation of Reactive Oxygen Species during Salt Stress in Plants and Their Crosstalk with Other Signaling Molecules—Current Perspectives and Future Directions
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Salt stress is a severe type of environmental stress. It adversely affects agricultural production worldwide. The overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is the most frequent phenomenon during salt stress. ROS are extremely reactive and, in high amounts, noxious, leading to destructive processes and causing cellular damage. However, at lower concentrations, ROS function as secondary messengers, playing a critical role as signaling molecules, ensuring regulation of growth and adjustment to multifactorial stresses. Plants contain several enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants that can detoxify ROS. The production of ROS and their scavenging are important aspects of the plant’s normal response to adverse conditions. Recently, this field has attracted immense attention from plant scientists; however, ROS-induced signaling pathways during salt stress remain largely unknown. In this review, we will discuss the critical role of different antioxidants in salt stress tolerance. We also summarize the recent advances on the detrimental effects of ROS, on the antioxidant machinery scavenging ROS under salt stress, and on the crosstalk between ROS and other various signaling molecules, including nitric oxide, hydrogen sulfide, calcium, and phytohormones. Moreover, the utilization of “-omic” approaches to improve the ROS-regulating antioxidant system during the adaptation process to salt stress is also described.
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“Furthermore, increased salinity levels promote the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which can degrade chlorophyll and damage the photosynthetic machinery46.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kesawat, M. S., Satheesh, N., Kherawat, B. S., Kumar, A., Kim, H.-U., Chung, S.-M., & Kumar, M.
- Affiliations
- Sri Sri University (IN)
- Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University (IN)
- Banaras Hindu University (IN)
- Sejong University (KR)
- Dongguk University (KR)
- Corresponding author
- Kumar, Manu
- ORCID
- Venue
- Plants
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2023-02-14
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 864
- ISSN
- 2223-7747 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9964777
- OpenAlex
- W4320917863
- Cited by
- 407
- References
- 270
- Citations by year
- 2026: 132 · 2025: 139 · 2024: 113 · 2023: 22
- FWCI
- 9.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Plants (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2020R1A2C2008175)
- Dongguk University Research Fund of 2020–2023 (NRF-2020R1A2C2008175)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Redox biology and oxidative stress
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Keywords
- reactive oxygen species, salt stress, salt tolerance, antioxidant enzymes, non-enzymatic antioxidants, ROS signaling, nitric oxide, hydrogen sulfide, calcium signaling, plant hormones, oxidative stress, plant stress response, omics approaches
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