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SUBMITTER: Ling HQ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC129801 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ling Hong-Qing HQ Bauer Petra P Bereczky Zsolt Z Keller Beat B Ganal Martin M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20021007 21
Iron deficiency is among the most common nutritional disorders in plants. To cope with low iron supply, plants with the exception of the Gramineae increase the solubility and uptake of iron by inducing physiological and developmental alterations including iron reduction, soil acidification, Fe(II) transport and root-hair proliferation (strategy I). The chlorotic tomato fer mutant fails to activate the strategy I. It was shown previously that the fer gene is required in the root. Here, we show th ...[more]