Polyamines in plant physiology.

Polyamines in Cardiac Physiology and Disease

The natural diamine putrescine and polyamines spermidine and spermine belong to a family of low-molecularweight organic polycations that are classically known to be important mediators of cell growth, proliferation and division. Several studies are nowadays available about the involvement of polyamines in various aspects such as growth, differentiation and death of cardiac cells, under physiolo...

Polyamines and plant alkaloids.

Naturally occurring alkaloids are nitrogenous compounds that constitute the pharmacogenically active basic principles of flowering plants. Alkaloids are classified into several biogenically related groups. Tobacco alkaloids are metabolised from polyamines and diamines putrescine and cadaverine. N-methyl transferase is the first enzyme in alkaloid biosynthetic pathway which drives the flow of ni...

Plant Growth: the Role of Polyamines

Recent Trends in Plant Physiology

Metabolomics in plant environmental physiology.

Changes in plant metabolism are at the heart of plant developmental processes, underpinning many of the ways in which plants respond to the environment. As such, the comprehensive study of plant metabolism, or metabolomics, is highly valuable in identifying phenotypic effects of abiotic and biotic stresses on plants. When study is in reference to analysing samples that are relevant to environme...