Title

Authors

Affiliation

Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Campus, Gomti Nagar Extension, Lucknow-226 028 India

Email

miansari@amity.edu; ansari_mi@hotmail.com; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Hypothesis

Date

Received December 02, 2014; Accepted December 18, 2014; Published December 31, 2014

Leaf senescence is highly regulated and complex developmental process that involves degradation of macromolecules as well as its recycling. Senescence process involves loss of chlorophyll, degradation of proteins, nucleic acid, lipid and mobilization of nutrients through its transport to the growing parts, developing fruits and seeds. Nitrogen is the most important nutrient to be recycled in senescence process. GABA-transaminase (γ-aminobutyric acid) is found to play very important role in nitrogen recycling process through GABA-shunt. Therefore, it is of interest to review the significance of GABA shunt in leaf senescence.

Keywords

Leaf Senescence, Nutrients, GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid), GABA-shunt, GABA-transaminase.

Citation

Ansari et al. Bioinformation 10(12): 734-736 (2014)
 

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.