Zinc (Zn) is an essential component of thousands of proteins in plants, although it is toxic in
excess. In this review, the dominant fluxes of Zn in the soil–root–shoot continuum are …

Iron uptake in plants is highly regulated in order to supply amounts sufficient for optimal
growth while preventing excess accumulation. In response to iron deficiency, plants induce …

Following the unequivocal demonstration that plants contain at least two types of vacuoles,
scientists studying this organelle have realized that the plant 'vacuome'is far more complex …

Potassium is a major plant nutrient which has to be accumulated in great quantity by roots
and distributed throughout the plant and within plant cells. Membrane transport of potassium …

Abstract Background The Cation Diffusion Facilitator (CDF) family is a ubiquitous family of
heavy metal transporters. Much interest in this family has focused on implications for human …

Despite the intensive management practices available to modern agriculture, drought and
salinity are still major constraints on crop production and food security. Yield losses to …

To better understand the mechanisms governing cellular traffic, storage of various
metabolites, and their ultimate degradation, Arabidopsis thaliana vacuole proteomes were …

Potassium (K+) is the most abundant cation in the cytosol, and plant growth requires that
large amounts of K+ are transported from the soil to the growing organs. K+ uptake and …

Plants have developed sophisticated mechanisms to tightly control the acquisition and
distribution of copper and iron in response to environmental fluctuations. Recent studies with …

Massively parallel sequencing of DNA by pyrosequencing technology offers much higher
throughput and lower cost than conventional Sanger sequencing. Although extensively used …