The essentiality of 14 mineral elements so far have been reported in plant nutrition. Eight of
these elements were known as micronutrients due to their lower concentrations in plants …

Nutritional insecurity is a major threat to the world's population that is highly dependent on
cereals-based diet, deficient in micronutrients. Next to cereals, millets are the primary …

Electrical signaling in higher plants is required for the appropriate intracellular and
intercellular communication, stress responses, growth and development. In this review, we …

Background Marker-assisted breeding is now routinely used in major crops to facilitate more
efficient cultivar improvement. This has been significantly enabled by the use of next …

In plants, metal transporters are responsible for metal uptake, translocation and
homeostasis. These metals include essential nutrients such as zinc (Zn) and manganese …

The NRAMP (natural resistance-associated macrophage protein) family of genes has been
widely characterized in organisms ranging from bacteria to yeast, plants, mice, and humans …

KEA 3 is a thylakoid membrane localized K+/H+ antiporter that regulates photosynthesis by
modulating two components of proton motive force (pmf), the proton gradient (∆ pH) and the …

M etal t olerance p roteins (MTPs) are a gene family of cation efflux transporters that occur
widely in plants and might serve an essential role in metal homeostasis and tolerance. Our …

Life presumably arose in the primeval oceans (with similar or even greater salinity than
present ocean—Knauth, 1998), so the ancient cells were designed to withstand salinity …

Ca2+ serves as a universal second messenger in eukaryotic signaling pathways, and the
spatial and temporal patterns of Ca2+ concentration changes are determined by feedback …