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Polyamines have been involved in the control of the inductive phase of rooting in Nicotiana tabacum (Malfatti et al. 1983, Kaur-Sawhney et al. 1988, Altamura et al. 1991, Altamura 1994), Vigna radiata (Friedman et al. 1985), Prunus avium (Biondi et al. 1990) and Beta vulgaris (Biondi et al. 1993). We have come to the same conclusions for poplar shoots raised in vitro (Hausman et al. 1994, 1995a, b) and also for walnut shoots (Heloir et al. 1996). On the contrary, spermidine and spermine inhibited the induction of the rooting process in the same material. Such specific effects of the most prevalent polyamines in plants, i.e. putrescine, spermidine and spermine, were also found by other laboratories (Tiburcio et al. 1989, Altamura et al. 1991, Rey et al. 1994). In poplar shoots, putrescine was suggested to act through its catabolic pathway (Hausman et al. 1994).
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Hausman, JF., Evers, D., Kevers, C., Gaspar, T. (1997). Conversion of Putrescine to γ-Aminobutyric Acid, an Essential Pathway for Root Formation by Poplar Shoots In Vitro . In: Altman, A., Waisel, Y. (eds) Biology of Root Formation and Development. Basic Life Sciences, vol 65. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5403-5_21
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