**Cross Talk between Nitric Oxide and Phytohormones Regulate Plant Development during Abiotic Stresses**

Fahim Nawaz, Rana Nauman Shabbir, Muhammad Shahbaz, Sadia Majeed, Muhammad Raheel, Waseem Hassan and Muhammad Amir Sohail

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.69812

#### **Abstract**

Plants, being sessile, are concurrently exposed to various biotic and abiotic stresses. The perception of stress signals in plants involves a wide spectrum of signal transduction pathways that interact to induce tolerance against adverse environmental conditions. This functional overlapping among various stress signaling cascades also leads to the expression of genes that regulate biosynthesis or action of other hormones. Phytohormonal signals, activated by both developmental and environmental responses, play a crucial role to develop stress tolerance in plants. Nitric oxide (NO) is one of the major players in plant signaling networks. Emerging evidence supports that NO interplays with signaling pathways of auxins, gibberellins, abscisic acid, ethylene, jasmonic acid, brassinosteroids, and other plant hormones to control metabolism, growth, and development in plants. This chapter focuses on the current state of knowledge of cross talk between signaling pathways of NO and phytohormones in plants exposed to various abiotic stresses.

**Keywords:** nitric oxide, phytohormones, abiotic stresses, signaling cascades, plant growth
