Overview of the roles of thiols in plant tolerance to abiotic stress. Potential roles of and the significance for abiotic stress tolerance are depicted by green circles next to SH-adducts. Potential deleterious compounds are shown in red and their adducts in green font. The dotted circle represents the half-cell reduction potential of the glutathione disulphide (GSSG)/2 glutathione (GSH) redox couple. Met, methionine; Cys, cysteine; TRX, thioredoxin; GRX, glutaredoxin; PC, phytochelatins; PCS, phytochelatin synthetase; GST, glutathione-S-transferase; GPx, glutathione peroxidase; GR, glutathione reductase; DHAR, dehydroascorbate reductase; ASC, ascorbate; MDHAR, monodehydroascorbate reductase; DHA, dehydroascorbate; ASCPx, ascorbate peroxidase.