Iron uptake mechanisms in plants: functions of the FRO family of ferric reductases

J Jeong, EL Connolly - Plant science, 2009 - Elsevier
Iron is essential for plants and plays critical roles in important processes such as
photosynthesis and respiration. While our understanding of molecular mechanisms involved …

Tissue-specific regulation of gibberellin signaling fine-tunes Arabidopsis iron-deficiency responses

M Wild, JM Davière, T Regnault… - Developmental Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Iron is an essential element for most living organisms. Plants acquire iron from the
rhizosphere and have evolved different biochemical and developmental responses to adapt …

Immunity to plant pathogens and iron homeostasis

A Aznar, NWG Chen, S Thomine, A Dellagi - Plant Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Iron is essential for metabolic processes in most living organisms. Pathogens and their hosts
often compete for the acquisition of this nutrient. However, iron can catalyze the formation of …

Proteasome‐mediated turnover of the transcriptional activator FIT is required for plant iron‐deficiency responses

A Sivitz, C Grinvalds, M Barberon, C Curie… - The Plant …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Plants display a number of responses to low iron availability in order to increase iron uptake
from the soil. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the ferric‐chelate reductase FRO2 and …

Direct measurement of 59Fe-labeled Fe2+ influx in roots of pea using a chelator buffer system to control free Fe2+ in solution

TC Fox, JE Shaff, MA Grusak, WA Norvell… - Plant …, 1996 - academic.oup.com
Fe2+ transport in plants has been difficult to quantify because of the inability to control Fe2+
activity in aerated solutions and non-specific binding of Fe to cell walls. In this study, a Fe (II) …

Characterization of FRO1, a pea ferric-chelate reductase involved in root iron acquisition

BM Waters, DG Blevins, DJ Eide - Plant Physiology, 2002 - academic.oup.com
To acquire iron, many plant species reduce soil Fe (III) to Fe (II) by Fe (III)-chelate reductases
embedded in the plasma membrane of root epidermal cells. The reduced product is then …

Facing the challenges of Cu, Fe and Zn homeostasis in plants

CM Palmer, ML Guerinot - Nature chemical biology, 2009 - nature.com
Plants have recently moved into the spotlight owing to the growing realization that the world
needs solutions to energy and food production that are sustainable and environmentally …

Targeted alterations in iron homeostasis underlie plant defense responses

G Liu, DL Greenshields, R Sammynaiken… - Journal of cell …, 2007 - journals.biologists.com
Iron (Fe) is a ubiquitous redox-active element essential for most life. The formation of
localized cell wall appositions, the oxidative burst and the production of pathogenesis …

[HTML][HTML] Iron homeostasis in plants and its crosstalk with copper, zinc, and manganese

S Rai, PK Singh, S Mankotia, J Swain, SB Satbhai - Plant Stress, 2021 - Elsevier
Micronutrients like copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), Iron (Fe), and Zinc (Zn) are essential for
plants, and their functions are tightly linked for vital metabolism. The normal concentration …

Oryza sativa FER‐LIKE FE DEFICIENCY‐INDUCED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR (OsFIT/OsbHLH156) interacts with OsIRO2 to regulate iron homeostasis

G Liang, H Zhang, Y Li, M Pu, Y Yang… - Journal of integrative …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Iron (Fe) is indispensable for the growth and development of plants. It is well known that FER‐
LIKE FE DEFICIENCY‐INDUCED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR (FIT) is a key regulator of Fe …