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Role of Polyamines in Molecular Regulation and Cross-Talks Against Drought Tolerance in Plants

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Global agricultural demand and the impact of fluctuating climatic conditions including global warming have catastrophically limited crop productivity and immensely outstretched the market value of agricultural products leading to acute inflation. The effect of desiccation or drought stress in plants is manifested at three levels viz. morphological, biochemical, and molecular and plants possess their own molecular and signaling arsenal to combat or ameliorate various stresses. For decades, stress-tolerant cultivars have been investigated and modulation of polyamine (PA) signaling was found to play a major role in attenuating environmental stresses including drought as major abiotic stress. PA metabolism pathways with their ability to crosstalk with both primary and secondary metabolic pathways have been correlated with several other responses such as seed germination, plant growth, development, defense, hormonal regulation, stress tolerance, and crop yield. Recent transcriptomic and metabolomic approaches have expanded the knowledge on the regulation of stress-induced biochemical, molecular, and physiological alterations. To fully comprehend the intricate biochemical network of plant stress physiology, it is necessary to identify exact responses against specific stress stimuli, interpret concurrent epigenetic alterations, and use molecular switching. The present review encompasses recent updates on drought tolerance mechanisms mediated by diverse polyamines playing significant roles in metabolic regulation, oxidative stress management, and systematic stress-reversal signaling. Besides, the drought stress-reversal role of polyamines and their cross-talks with other signaling molecules have also been documented. Gene, enzyme, and transcription factor (TF) functional features were retrieved from the published papers involving transgenic or mutant plants with over-expression or loss-of-function investigations.

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The first author thankfully acknowledges the research grant provided by DST-INSPIRE (Fellowship sanction letter no. and date: C/4588/IFD/2014-15 and 25.11.2014). The corresponding author thankfully acknowledges the “Faculty Research and Professional Development Fund” (FRPDF) for financial assistance from Presidency University.

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  1. Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University, 86/1 College Street, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700073, India

    Samapika Nandy, Mimosa Ghorai, Puja Ray & Abhijit Dey

  2. Institute of Bioinformatics Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharasthtra, India

    Saynati Mandal

  3. National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067, India

    Santosh Kumar Gupta

  4. Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 8499000, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel

    Uttpal Anand

  5. Department of Botany, Rishi Bankim Chandra College, Naihati, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, 743165, India

    Avinash Mundhra

  6. Department of Global Medical Science, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26426, Gangwon-do, Korea

    Md. Habibur Rahman

  7. Department of Biotechnology, School of Engineering & Technology (SET), Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 201310, India

    Sicon Mitra, Niraj Kumar Jha & Saurabh Kumar Jha

  8. Department of Microbiology, St. Aloysius’ College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, 482001, India

    Durga Ray & Saurabh Kumar Jha

  9. ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, 171001, India

    Milan Kumar Lal & Rahul Kumar Tiwari

  10. ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India

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  11. Department of Biotechnology, Manipur University, Canchipur, Imphal, Manipur, 795003, India

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  12. Department of Biotechnology, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India

    Devendra Kumar Pandey

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    Niraj Kumar Jha & Saurabh Kumar Jha

  18. Department of Biotechnology Engineering and Food Technology, Chandigarh University, Mohali, 140413, India

    Niraj Kumar Jha

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SN, Literature survey, primary draft; SM, Literature survey, primary draft; SKG, Revision of draft, preparation of tables; UA, MG, Preparation of tables and figures, addressed reviewers’ comments; AM, Md. HR: Literature survey, overall monitoring; PR, Literature survey, overall monitoring; DR, Literature survey, overall monitoring; MKL, RKT, PN, MSS, Preparation of tables and figures; DKP, Overall monitoring; NKJ, SKJ, Primary draft, preparation of tables and figures, MK, R, Revision and finalization, JSR, Conceptualization, and finalization. AD, Conceptualization, overall monitoring, revision of the draft and finalization; All authors read and approved the final version and contributed substantially to the manuscript.

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Nandy, S., Mandal, S., Gupta, S.K. et al. Role of Polyamines in Molecular Regulation and Cross-Talks Against Drought Tolerance in Plants. J Plant Growth Regul 42, 4901–4917 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00344-022-10802-2

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