ORIGINAL ARTICLE

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Significance of Sulphur nutrition against metal induced oxidative stress in plants

Mohd Mazid^1*, Khan Zeba H.¹, Saima Quddusi², Taqi Ahmed Khan³, Firoz Mohammad¹

¹ Plant Physiology Division, Department of Botany, Faculty of Life Sciences, AMU, Aligarh, India. 202002.
² Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Lucknow, India. 226010
³ Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, AMU, Aligarh, India. 202002.

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Received June 28, 2011

Sulphur (S) is available to plants as sulphate (SO₄^2-) in the soil to the roots and as gaseous SO₂ in the atmosphere to the shoots. Of all the macronutrient, S is perhaps the nutrient which has attracted the most attention in soil science and plant nutrition due to its potential defensive characteristics to pests, good nutritive potentiality to crops and its relative immobility in the soil-plant system. This review highlights the mechanisms of uptake and translocation of S from soil and its transport in xylem and phloem tissues of plants. Moreover, it also throws new insights, have led us to revisit the hypothesis of S chelation in reference to oxidative stress induced by heavy metals sequestration.

Key words: Xylem transport, phloem transport, oxidative stress, translocation, antioxidant, chelation.