Polyamines function in stress tolerance: From synthesis to regulation

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue OCTOBER, 2015, Pages

  Liu, Ji Hong ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Wu, Hao ^a   Gong, Xiaoqing ^a,b   Moriguchi, Takaya ^c  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Antioxidant; Polyamine; Polyamine biosynthesis; ROS; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944320033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00827     Document Type: Review

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