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ReviewCells2021

Spermine: Its Emerging Role in Regulating Drought Stress Responses in Plants.

Md Mahadi Hasan, Milan Skalicky, Mohammad Shah Jahan, Md Nazmul Hossain, Zunaira Anwar, Zheng-Fei Nie, Nadiyah M Alabdallah, Marian Brestic, Vaclav Hejnak, Xiang-Wen Fang

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Review in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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60citing papers in PubMed
24.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 160 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 6 institutions in 6 countries.

Md Mahadi HasanState Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9168-7677
Milan SkalickyDepartment of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-4114-6909
Mohammad Shah JahanKey Laboratory of Southern Vegetable Crop Genetic Improvement in Ministry of Agriculture, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6679-4155
Md Nazmul HossainKey Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecology in Southern China, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8333-1240
Zunaira AnwarDepartment of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan.
Zheng-Fei NieState Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
Nadiyah M AlabdallahDepartment of Biology, College of Science, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, 383, Dammam 34212, Saudi Arabia.
Marian BresticDepartment of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-3470-6100
Vaclav HejnakDepartment of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-0893-1486
Xiang-Wen FangState Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
Lanzhou University · CNCzech University of Life Sciences Prague · CZNanjing Agricultural University · CNImam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University · SASlovak University of Agriculture in Nitra · SKUniversity of Faisalabad · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, research on spermine (Spm) has turned up a lot of new information about this essential polyamine, especially as it is able to counteract damage from abiotic stresses. Spm has been shown to protect plants from a variety of environmental insults, but whether it can prevent the adverse effects of drought has not yet been reported. Drought stress increases endogenous Spm in plants and exogenous application of Spm improves the plants' ability to tolerate drought stress. Spm's role in enhancing antioxidant defense mechanisms, glyoxalase systems, methylglyoxal (MG) detoxification, and creating tolerance for drought-induced oxidative stress is well documented in plants. However, the influences of enzyme activity and osmoregulation on Spm biosynthesis and metabolism are variable. Spm interacts with other molecules like nitric oxide (NO) and phytohormones such as abscisic acid, salicylic acid, brassinosteroids, and ethylene, to coordinate the reactions necessary for developing drought tolerance. This review focuses on the role of Spm in plants under severe drought stress. We have proposed models to explain how Spm interacts with existing defense mechanisms in plants to improve drought tolerance.

Indexed as

DroughtsAdaptation, PhysiologicalOxidative StressPlantsSpermineStress, PhysiologicalSpermineabscisic acidantioxidant enzymesdroughtpolyaminesstomata

Identifiers

PMID33525668
PMCPMC7912026
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