In nongraminaceous plants, the FeII-transporter gene and ferric-chelate reductase gene
have been cloned from Arabidopsis thaliana, whereas FeIII-reductase has not. In …

Iron is essential for the survival and proliferation of all plants. Higher plants have developed
two distinct strategies to acquire iron, which is only slightly soluble, from the rhizosphere: the …

Higher plants utilize various mechanisms to maintain iron homeostasis. To acquire sparingly
soluble iron from the rhizosphere, graminaceous plants synthesize natural iron (III) chelators …

Reduction of Fe (III) to Fe (II) by Fe (III) chelate reductase is thought to be an obligatory step
in iron uptake as well as the primary factor in making iron available for absorption by all …

Iron acquisition of graminaceous plants is characterized by the synthesis and secretion of
the iron‐chelating phytosiderophore, mugineic acid (MA), and by a specific uptake system …

Higher plants acquire iron (Fe) from the rhizosphere through two strategies. Strategy II,
employed by graminaceous plants, involves secretion of phytosiderophores (eg …

Discovery of mugineic acids as phytosiderophores has shown that some graminaceous
monocotyledonous plants have a different iron acquisition strategy (strategy II) from …

Iron is an essential micronutrient with numerous cellular functions, and its deficiency
represents one of the most serious problems in human nutrition worldwide. Plants have two …

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 …

To clone genes required for the synthesis of mugineic acid (MA) or for the transport of Fe (III)-
MA, a λZAPII cDNA library was constructed from poly (A)+-RNA isolated from Fe-deficient …