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Nitric Oxide Action in Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants

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Over the past few years, nitric oxide (NO) has emerged as a key player in plant adaptive/hypersensitive responses to abiotic (stress) factors, since the content of endogenously generated NO increases in adverse environmental conditions. This chapter addresses to the signalling events with the involvement of the reactive nitrogen species under ultraviolet-B (UV-B) exposure. Solar UV-B has long been recognized as merely deleterious environmental factor; however, rapidly increasing evidence indicates that it plays regulatory role as photomorphogenic trigger for plants. In turn, NO is supposed to be the crucial signalling molecule under plant response to UV-B. The putative biochemical mechanisms of the protective effects of exogenous NO donors on plant cells and the input of NO-synthase-like activities and nitrate reductase under UV-B exposure are discussed. The involvement of cytoskeleton-related NO signalling pathways (especially based on involvement) of microtubules in realization of intracellular UV-B effects is highlighted in the review.

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    Alla I. Yemets, Yuliya A. Krasylenko & Yaroslav B. Blume

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Yemets, A.I., Krasylenko, Y.A., Blume, Y.B. (2015). Nitric Oxide and UV-B Radiation. In: Khan, M., Mobin, M., Mohammad, F., Corpas, F. (eds) Nitric Oxide Action in Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17804-2_9

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