Alteration of Central Metabolism During Plant Adaptation to Abiotic Stresses (Review)

Plant tolerance to environmental stresses is a polygenic trait, and adaptation to stressful environment is regulated at different levels of plant organization. Widely used gene expression profiling not always allows understanding the essence of the adaptive changes, because of multilevel regulatory processes involved in adaptation. Therefore, an analysis of alterations in metabolites in plants undergoing the adaptation to the stressful environment, probably, is the most adequate approach capable of revealing a complex picture of adaptive responses. Here the information about metabolic adjustments during plants adaptation to abiotic stresses is given with emphasis on waterlogging stress.