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Spermine is not essential for survival of Arabidopsis.
FEBS letters - 2 Jan 2004
Imai Akihiro, Akiyama Takashi, Kato Tomohiko, Sato Shusei, Tabata Satoshi, Yamamoto Kotaro T, Takahashi Taku
Abstract excerpt
Spermine is the final product of the polyamine biosynthetic pathway and is ubiquitously present in most organisms. The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana has two genes encoding spermine synthase: ACAULIS5 (ACL5), whose loss-of-function mutants show a severe defect in stem elongation, and SPMS. In order to elucidate the function of spermine in plants, we isolated a T-DNA insertion mutant of the SPMS gene. Free and...
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