Rakesh Minocha

TL;DR: This review provides a comprehensive and critical evaluation of the published literature on interactions between abiotic stress and polyamines in plants, and examines the experimental strategies used to understand the functional significance of this relationship with the aim of improving plant productivity, especially under conditions of abiotics stress.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the contribution of trees versus soil to total ecosystem carbon storage in a temperate forest and investigate the mechanisms by which soils accumulate carbon in response to two decades of elevated nitrogen inputs.

TL;DR: The results reinforce and extend other regional observations that sugar maple decline in the northeastern United States and southern Canada is caused in part by anthropogenic effects on soil calcium status, but the causal interactions among inorganic nutrition, physiological stress, mycorrhizal colonization, and seedling growth and health remain to be established.

TL;DR: An analysis of certain metabolic changes to infer the responsive regulation brought about by increased diamine or polyamine levels in actively growing poplar cell cultures and ripening tomato pericarp tissue suggests that Put is a negative regulator while Spd–Spm are positive regulators of cellular amino acid metabolism.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that diversion of ornithine into polyamine biosynthesis (by transgenic approach) not only plays a role in regulating its own biosynthesis from glutamate but also affects arginine and proline biosynthesis is tested.