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Leaf Senescence in Plants: Nutrient Remobilization and Gene Regulation

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In order to study the development of a plant, the best organs are leaves as they exhibit the life history which is reproducible. Leaves are also useful as experimental materials. As leaves grow, they encounter various changes in their development, physiology, and metabolism which ultimately ends up in senescence and death. Senescence is the process of degradation of the nutrients produced during the life time of a leaf and its further redistribution to the developing parts of the plant. Over the years, the studies have shown leaf senescence to be a complex molecular phenomenon which is regulated at the transcriptional, posttranscriptional, and posttranslational level.

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  2. Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Altaf Ahmad

  3. Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, India

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  4. Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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Sarwat, M. (2017). Leaf Senescence in Plants: Nutrient Remobilization and Gene Regulation. In: Sarwat, M., Ahmad, A., Abdin, M., Ibrahim, M. (eds) Stress Signaling in Plants: Genomics and Proteomics Perspective, Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42183-4_13

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