The last ten years have witnessed major advances in our understanding of zinc transporters
and their regulation in eukaryotic organisms. Two families of transporters, the ZIP (Zrt-, I rt …

The use of plants to clean-up soils contaminated with trace elements could provide a cheap
and sustainable technology for bioremediation. Field trials suggested that the rate of …

The effect of growing pea (Pisum sativum L.) plants with CdCl2 (0–50 μM) on different plant
physiological parameters and antioxidative enzymes of leaves was studied in order to know …

Uptake and translocation of cationic nutrients play essential roles in physiological processes
including plant growth, nutrition, signal transduction, and development. Approximately 5% of …

Iron uptake from the soil is a tightly controlled process in plant roots, involving specialized
transporters. One such transporter, IRT1, was identified in Arabidopsis thaliana and shown …

The ZIP superfamily of transporters plays important roles in metal ion uptake in diverse
organisms. There are 12 ZIP-encoding genes in humans, and we hypothesize that many of …

Plants represent a natural environmentally safe way to clean or remediate contaminated
sites. Members of the Brassicaceae or Cruciferae plant family have a key role in …

Ca 2+ levels in plants, fungi, and bacteria are controlled in part by H+/Ca 2+ exchangers;
however, the relationship between primary sequence and biological activity of these …

In plants, the elements Fe, Zn, Mn, Cu, Ni, B, Mo and Cl are considered to be micronutrients
essential for plant growth. Micronutrient uptake systems are intrinsically more difficult to …

Copper is not only a ubiquitous metal in our modern, technological environment, it is also
essential for the function of most living organisms. Just as it allows for the movement of …