Janneke Balk

TL;DR: Iron is an essential nutrient for most forms of life, and this is particularly the case for photosynthetic organisms such as plants and algae, where it is obtained from the soil, and distributed where required.

TL;DR: A new mutant allele of ATM3 is identified, encoding the ATP-binding cassette Transporter of the Mitochondria 3 (systematic name ABCB25), confirming the previously reported role of ATM 3 in both FeS cluster and Moco biosynthesis and suggesting that ATM3 are indirectly required for cPMP synthesis.

TL;DR: By over-expressing TaVIT2 under the control of an endosperm-specific promoter, a 2-fold increase in iron in white flour fractions is achieved, exceeding minimum UK legal fortification levels and suggesting that food products made from it could contribute to improved iron nutrition.

TL;DR: An in-depth metabolic analysis shows that most Fe-S cluster-dependent processes are not affected, including biotin biosynthesis, molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis and the electron transport chain, and it is observed an increase in most TCA cycle intermediates and amino acids, especially pyruvate, 2-oxoglutarate, glycine and branched-chain amino acids.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identified an in-frame deletion associated with dgl in a BRUTUS homologue, which is absent from wild type and the original parent line.