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Polyamines and Plant Adaptation to Saline Environments

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Polyamines are universal organic polycations implicated in a wide array of fundamental processes in plants, ranging from signalling, genome expression, and plant growth and development, to plant adaptation to abiotic stresses. Stress-induced accumulation of polyamines often correlates with improvements in plant tolerance. Polyamines can protect nucleic acids and proteins and modulate the functions of macromolecules under extreme environments. Polyamines are also regulators of expression of genes encoding stress proteins. They possess antioxidant properties. Taken together, these recent findings have promoted intense efforts to characterise in detail the mechanisms of regulation of polyamine homeostasis, and to elucidate realisation of their multifaceted role in plants under stress. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying polyamine participation in plant adaptation to stress remain incompletely understood. In order to better understand the role of polyamines in plant adaptation, we focus on data concerning gene expression obtained by molecular biology methods using natural salt-tolerant species (halophytes) and also mutant and transgenic plants manifesting a high tolerance to salinity. The restriction of plant growth and productivity caused by salinity is especially acute in arid and semi-arid regions. In these regions, the influence of salt stress is aggravated by the additional action of other xerothermic factors, in particular drought and high temperature. In this chapter, particular emphasis will be paid to the possible role of polyamines in ameliorating the detrimental effects of salinity on plants during adaptation processes.

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The authors are grateful to Professor Nella L. Klachko from the Institute of Plant Physiology (Moscow, Russia) for valuable discussion. This work was partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and by the program of the Presidium of RAS (Cell and Molecular Biology).

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Kuznetsov, V.V., Shevyakova, N.I. (2010). Polyamines and Plant Adaptation to Saline Environments. In: Ramawat, K. (eds) Desert Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02550-1_13

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