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SUBMITTER: Deng F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6131421 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Plant biotechnology journal 20180325 10
Arsenic (As) is a poisonous element that causes severe skin lesions and cancer in humans. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a major dietary source of As in humans who consume this cereal as a staple food. We hypothesized that increasing As vacuolar sequestration would inhibit its translocation into the grain and reduce the amount of As entering the food chain. We developed transgenic rice plants expressing two different vacuolar As sequestration genes, ScYCF1 and OsABCC1, under the control of the RCc3 p ...[more]