Figure 5.

A contextual summary of postulated mechanisms elucidated from this study. The left side of the plant highlights the changes in metabolites involved in the key impacted pathways, leading to growth-promoting physiological events under HS treatment in non-starved conditions. On the right side of the plants are the biochemical alterations in the levels of metabolites spanning the impacted pathways identified in the HS-treated, starved plants, which were associated with the HS-enhanced alleviation of nutrient starvation.