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Genetic, Metabolic and Environmental Factors Associated with Aging in Plants

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Aging of Organisms

Part of the book series: Biology of Aging and its Modulation ((BIMO,volume 4))

Abstract

In general biological aging either refers in a broad sense to the chronological progression of an organism’s life, or in a more confined way to the “old age,” the last phase preceding death, which is characterized by a decline in physiological processes and vigour [1,2]. In analogy to the theory of aging as defined for animals by Harman [3, 4], in this article aging of plants is used in the broader sense as the process of slow, progressive and sequential alterations a plant or a part of a plant undergoes during its development until death. In contrast to animals, plants have extremely different life spans ranging from a few days up to several thousands of years in case of some trees. Moreover, life spans of different organs of a plant can substantially differ from the whole plant [5].

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Krupinska, K., Falk, J., Humbeck, K. (2003). Genetic, Metabolic and Environmental Factors Associated with Aging in Plants. In: Osiewacz, H.D. (eds) Aging of Organisms. Biology of Aging and its Modulation, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0671-1_3

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