“…The accumulation of endogenous H 2 S has become a common response of plants to environmental stress, including salt, heavy metal (HM), drought, heat and cold stress, as well as pathogen infection, which may be closely associated with the acquisition of stress tolerance in plants (Li, 2013; Calderwood and Kopriva, 2014; Hancock and Whiteman, 2014). More interestingly, exogenously applied H 2 S, releasing from its donors such as NaHS and morpholin-4-ium 4-methoxyphenyl(morpholino) phosphinodithioate (GYY4137), shows significant positive effects on seed germination (Li et al, 2012a; Li and He, 2015; Wojtyla et al, 2016), organogenesis and growth (Lin et al, 2012; Fang T. et al, 2014), the regulation of senescence (Zhang et al, 2011), as well as the acquisition of stress tolerance such as salt (Christou et al, 2013), HM (Chen et al, 2013), drought (Christou et al, 2013), heat (Li et al, 2013a,b; Li, 2015c) and cold tolerance (Fu et al, 2013). These results indicate that H 2 S may be a candidate signal molecule in plant cross-adaptation.…”