Heavy metals represent a group of dangerous pollutants, to which is paid close attention.
Many heavy metals are essential as important constituents of pigments and enzymes …

Background Plants contain relatively few cell types, each contributing a specialized role in
shaping plant function. With respect to plant nutrition, different cell types accumulate certain …

Zinc is essential for normal plant growth and development. To understand its transport in
rice, we characterized OsZIP5, which is inducible under Zn deficiency. OsZIP5 …

Zinc is an essential micronutrient for several physiological and biochemical processes. To
investigate its transport in rice, we characterized OsZIP8, a rice ZIP (Zrt, Irt-like Protein) gene …

Plants strictly regulate the uptake and distribution of Zn, which is essential for plant growth
and development. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana PCR2 is essential for Zn …

The specific transport of metal ions, mediated by membrane-localized metal transporters, is
of fundamental importance in all eukaryotes. Genome-wide analysis of metal transporters …

This book provides information essential to students taking courses in biotechnology as part
of environmental sciences, environmental management, or environmental biology programs …

The phage shock protein (Psp) system is induced by extracytoplasmic stress and thought to
be important for the maintenance of proton motive force. We investigated the contribution of …

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

As a result of copper essentiality for life, plants and most other organisms have developed a
conserved and complex network of proteins to handling Cu in order to prevent its deficit and …