Abstract
The polyamines (PAs), spermidine (SPD) and spermine (SPN) and their diamine precursor, putiescine (PUT) represent a set of evolutionarily highly conserved small molecular weight organic polycations which play vital roles as modulators of a plethora of biological processes from enzyme activation and maintenance of ionic balance, through regulation of growth and development, to mediation of hormone action and progress of cell division cycle. Because of this functional versatility, research on PAs represents one of the most vigorously pursued areas of modern biology. While most of the currently available information on these important classes of bioregulators is derived from microbial and animal systems, interest in their possible participation in various facets of plant biochemistry and physiology is of relatively recent origin. The early pioneering investigations of Smith and others [34, 48. 62, 54, 63] on K+-deficient barley leaves, set the stage for the elucidation of the general metabolic sequence involved in the biogenesis of these amines in plants and pinpointed the important roles PAs play in maintenance of intracellular pH and ionic balance. However, with the recognition that plant systems also offer tremendous potential for unravelling the riddles concerncd with the biological functions of PAs. new vistas have been opened in plant PA research.
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Adiga, P.R., Prasad, G.L. (1985). Biosynthesis and regulation of polyamines in higher plants. In: Galston, A.W., Smith, T.A. (eds) Polyamines in Plants. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5171-6_1
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