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ReviewPlant cell reports2019

Diverse role of γ-aminobutyric acid in dynamic plant cell responses.

Maryam Seifikalhor, Sasan Aliniaeifard, Batool Hassani, Vahid Niknam, Oksana Lastochkina

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Review in Plant cell reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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75citing papers in PubMed
26.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

75 citing papers in PubMed, 197 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Integration of Non-Invasive Micro-Test Technology andInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  11. Exogenous GABA mitigates flower senescence inPhysiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2025
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  12. Investigating the Role of GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) in Mitigating UV-C Light Exposure on Pseudochlorella pringsheimii Microalgae.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2025
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  17. γ-Aminobutyric Acid Alleviates Programmed Cell Death in TwoInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Maryam SeifikalhorDepartment of Plant Biology, Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms in Iran, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, 14155, Iran.
Sasan AliniaeifardDepartment of Horticulture, College of Aburaihan, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Aliniaeifard@ut.ac.ir.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9572-2839
Batool HassaniDepartment of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
Vahid NiknamDepartment of Plant Biology, Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms in Iran, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, 14155, Iran.
Oksana LastochkinaBashkir Research Institute of Agriculture, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia.
University of Tehran · IRRussian Academy of Sciences · RUShahid Beheshti University · IR

Funding

Iran National Science Foundation 97007583
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), a four-carbon non-protein amino acid, is found in most prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. Although, ample research into GABA has occurred in mammals as it is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter; in plants, a role for GABA has often been suggested as a metabolite that changes under stress rather than as a signal, as no receptor or motif for GABA binding was identified until recently and many aspects of its biological function (ranging from perception to function) remain to be answered. In this review, flexible properties of GABA in regulation of plant responses to various environmental biotic and abiotic stresses and its integration in plant growth and development either as a metabolite or a signaling molecule are discussed. We have elaborated on the role of GABA in stress adaptation (i.e., salinity, hypoxia/anoxia, drought, temperature, heavy metals, plant-insect interplay and ROS-related responses) and its contribution in non-stress-related biological pathways (i.e., involvement in plant-microbe interaction, contribution to the carbon and nitrogen metabolism and governing of signal transduction pathways). This review aims to represent the multifunctional contribution of GABA in various biological and physiological mechanisms under stress conditions; the objective is to review the current state of knowledge about GABA role beyond stress-related responses. Our effort is to place findings about GABA in an organized and broader context to highlight its shared metabolic and biologic functions in plants under variable conditions. This will provide potential modes of GABA crosstalk in dynamic plant cell responses.

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gamma-Aminobutyric AcidGene Expression Regulation, PlantPlant CellsPlant Growth RegulatorsStress, Physiologicalgamma-Aminobutyric AcidPlant Growth RegulatorsAbiotic stressBiotic stressGABAMultifunctional contributionNon-stressPlants

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PMID30739138
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