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Polyamines: Metabolism, Regulation, and Functions in Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance

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Polyamines are small, positively charged, organic compounds containing more than two amino groups. They are omnipresent in plants and produced during various metabolic processes. Environmental fluctuations owing to greenhouse gases, pollution, deforestation, and global warming are known to hamper plants’ normal growth, production, and developmental processes causing various forms of abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, heat, cold, osmolarity, etc. Polyamines are considered important to plants as they provide support in maintaining normal growth and development of plants even during stressed conditions. They play crucial role whether present at endogenous levels or fortified exogenously to plants utilizing plant tissue culture or genetic transformation techniques. Although they are regarded important for plants, still their mode of action and regulation during plant stress conditions is still not well understood. In this chapter, their endogenous production, mode of action and regulation is described at length so as to facilitate a broader and clearer picture to the researchers to understand the importance of them in combating various abiotic stresses in plants.

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Sinha, S., Mishra, M. (2022). Polyamines: Metabolism, Regulation, and Functions in Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance. In: Ansari, S.A., Ansari, M.I., Husen, A. (eds) Augmenting Crop Productivity in Stress Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6361-1_19

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