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Boron transport mechanisms: collaboration of channels and transporters.
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Transgenic approaches show promise for generating crops that are tolerant of B deficiency and toxicity, and B-toxicity tolerance in yeast and plants are discussed.About:
This article is published in Trends in Plant Science.The article was published on 2008-08-01. It has received 233 citations till now.read more
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Arsenic as a Food Chain Contaminant: Mechanisms of Plant Uptake and Metabolism and Mitigation Strategies
TL;DR: A range of mitigation methods, from agronomic measures and plant breeding to genetic modification, may be employed to reduce As uptake by food crops.
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Arsenic uptake and metabolism in plants.
TL;DR: Hyperaccumulation appears to involve enhanced arsenate uptake, decreased arsenite-thiol complexation and arsenite efflux to the external medium, greatly enhanced xylem translocation of arsenite, and vacuolar sequestration of arsenites in fronds.
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The plant vascular system: evolution, development and functions
William J. Lucas,Andrew Groover,Raffael Lichtenberger,Kaori Miyashima Furuta,Shri Ram Yadav,Ykä Helariutta,Xin Qiang He,Hiroo Fukuda,Julie Kang,Siobhan M. Brady,John W. Patrick,John S. Sperry,Akiko Yoshida,Ana Flor López-Millán,Michael A. Grusak,Pradeep Kachroo +15 more
TL;DR: The evolutionary events that gave rise to the tracheophytes are examined, followed by analysis of the genetic and hormonal networks that cooperate to orchestrate vascular development in the gymnosperms and angiosperms, in a comprehensive picture of the state-of-the-art in the area of plant vascular biology.
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Aquaporins are multifunctional water and solute transporters highly divergent in living organisms
TL;DR: An overview about AQP structure, function and regulation in a broad range of living organisms is given, with emphasis on plant AQPs where the high number and diversity of these transport proteins make them behave more like multifunctional, highly adapted channels rather than simple water pores.
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Ion channels in plants.
TL;DR: The present knowledge is reviewed for the plant ion channel biology and special emphasis is drawn to the molecular mechanisms of channel regulation, in the context of model systems and in the light of evolution.
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The Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants
M. H. Martin,H. Marschner +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the relationship between Mineral Nutrition and Plant Diseases and Pests, and the Soil-Root Interface (Rhizosphere) in Relation to Mineral Nutrition.
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Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the relationship between mineral nutrition and plant diseases and pests, and diagnose deficiency and toxicity of mineral nutrients in leaves and other aerial parts of a plant.
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Structural identification of a bacterial quorum-sensing signal containing boron
Xin Chen,Stephan Schauder,Noelle Potier,Alain Van Dorsselaer,István Pelczer,Bonnie L. Bassler,Frederick M. Hughson +6 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that addition of naturally occurring borate to anAI-2 precursor generates active AI-2, and a potential biological role for boron is indicated, an element required by a number of organisms but for unknown reasons.
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A silicon transporter in rice
Jian Feng Ma,Kazunori Tamai,Naoki Yamaji,Namiki Mitani,Saeko Konishi,Maki Katsuhara,Masaji Ishiguro,Yoshiko Murata,Masahiro Yano +8 more
TL;DR: The identification of a silicon transporter provides both an insight into the silicon uptake system in plants, and a new strategy for producing crops with high resistance to multiple stresses by genetic modification of the root's silicon uptake capacity.
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RHAMNOGALACTURONAN II: Structure and Function of a Borate Cross-Linked Cell Wall Pectic Polysaccharide
TL;DR: The demonstration that RG-II exists in primary walls as a dimer that is covalently cross-linked by a borate diester was a major advance in the understanding of the structure and function of this pectic polysaccharide.