›› 2011, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (2): 0-432.

• 综述 •    

Recent progress on transport and assimilation of sulfur in plants

MNEG Ci-fu;JIANG Pei-kun;*;CAO Zhi-hong;XU Qiu-fang;ZHOU Guo-mo   

  1. 1College of Environment Science & Technology, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Linan 311300, China;2Institute of Environmental Sciences, Resources, Soil and Fertilizers, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021,China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2011-03-25 Published:2011-03-25

Abstract: Sulfur as the fourth major plant nutrient after N, P and K is an essential element for growth and physiological function plants. Uptake and assimilation of sulfur in plants are of great importance for growth and development, yield and quality, stress tolerance, disease and insect resistance and so on of plants. This paper reviewed recent progress on transport and assimilation of sulfur in plants as well as regulation of sulfate uptake and assimilation channels in plants, and put forward suggestions on the further research direction and keystones.

Key words: sulfur, plants, transport, assimilation