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SUBMITTER: Mendoza-Cozatl DG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3191310 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mendoza-Cózatl David G DG Jobe Timothy O TO Hauser Felix F Schroeder Julian I JI
Current opinion in plant biology 20110805 5
Iron, zinc, copper and manganese are essential metals for cellular enzyme functions while cadmium, mercury and the metalloid arsenic lack any biological function. Both, essential metals, at high concentrations, and non-essential metals and metalloids are extremely reactive and toxic. Therefore, plants have acquired specialized mechanisms to sense, transport and maintain essential metals within physiological concentrations and to detoxify non-essential metals and metalloids. This review focuses o ...[more]