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Involvement of polyamines in plant response to abiotic stress

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Environmental stresses are the major cause of crop loss worldwide. Polyamines are involved in plant stress responses. However, the precise role(s) of polyamine metabolism in these processes remain ill-defined. Transgenic approaches demonstrate that polyamines play essential roles in stress tolerance and open up the possibility to exploit this strategy to improve plant tolerance to multiple environmental stresses. The use of Arabidopsis as a model plant enables us to carry out global expression studies of the polyamine metabolic genes under different stress conditions, as well as genome-wide expression analyses of insertional-mutants and plants over-expressing these genes. These studies are essential to dissect the polyamine mechanism of action in order to design new strategies to increase plant survival in adverse environments.

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Research in the two collaborating groups has been supported during these last years by the following grants: The UB group has been financed by Spanish CICYT (BIO2002-04459-C02-02), EU-QLK5-CT-2002-00841. Current research of UB is financed by MEC-BIO2005-09252-C02-01 and 2005SGR00020 (Comissionat per Universitats i Recerca, Generalitat de Catalunya). The UV group has been financed by Spanish CICYT-BIO2002-04459-C02-02 and more recently by grant MEC-BIO2005-09252-C02-02 and GV2005-070.

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  1. Laboratori de Fisiologia Vegetal, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Avda Diagonal, 643, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    Rubén Alcázar, Juan C. Cuevas, Macarena Patron, Antonio F. Tiburcio & Teresa Altabella

  2. Fundación Centro Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo, Parque tecnológico, C/Charles Darwin 14, 46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain

    Francisco Marco

  3. Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de València. Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Dr. Moliner 50, 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain

    Alejandro Ferrando & Pedro Carrasco

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Alcázar, R., Marco, F., Cuevas, J.C. et al. Involvement of polyamines in plant response to abiotic stress. Biotechnol Lett 28, 1867–1876 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-006-9179-3

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