Silencing S-adenosyl-L-methionine decarboxylase (SAMDC) in Nicotiana tabacum points at a polyamine-dependent trade-off between growth and tolerance responses

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue MAR2016, 2016, Pages

  Mellidou, Ifigeneia ^a   Moschou, Panagiotis N ^b   Ioannidis, Nikolaos E ^c   Pankou, Chryssa ^a   Gėmes, Katalin ^d   Valassakis, Chryssanthi ^e   Andronis, Efthimios A ^c   Beris, Despoina ^e   Haralampidis, Kosmas ^e   Roussis, Andreas ^e   Karamanoli, Aikaterini ^a   Matsi, Theodora ^a   Kotzabasis, Kiriakos ^c   Constantinidou, Helen Isis ^a   Roubelakis Angelakis, Kalliopi A ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Polyamine metabolism; ROS; Salt tolerance; SAMDC transgenics; Silenced SAMDC; Transgenic assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964253633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00379     Document Type: Article

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