“…Hydrogen sulfide H 2 S has dual effects on plant growth and development. A high concentration of H 2 S can cause cytotoxicity, while a low concentration of H 2 S does not cause toxicity to plants and may act as a signaling molecule (Duan et al, 2015;Li et al, 2016). Recently, many studies have found that H 2 S can regulate plant growth and development, such as inducing plant seed germination (Liu and Lal, 2015), improving photosynthetic capacity (Coyne and Bingham, 1978;Chen et al, 2011), regulating stomatal movement (Lisjak et al, 2011;Scuffi et al, 2014), promoting the development of lateral roots (Jia et al, 2015;, regulating secondary metabolism of sugar, polyamines, organic acids and amino acids (Shi et al, 2015;Chen et al, 2016), participating in protein modification (Mustafa et al, 2009), maintaining ion balance in plants (Wang et al, 2012;Lai et al, 2014), delaying ripening and senescence of postharvest fruits during storage (Fu et al, 2014;Hu et al, 2014), and improving antioxidant capacity (Luo et al, 2015).…”