Heavy metals need assistance: The contribution of nicotianamine to metal circulation throughout the plant and the Arabidopsis NAS gene family

Understanding the regulated inter- and intracellular metal circulation is one of the challenges in the field of metal homeostasis. Inside organisms metal ions are bound to organic ligands to prevent their uncontrolled reactivity and to increase their solubility. Nicotianamine (NA) is one of the impo...

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Main Authors: Petra eBauer, Mara eSchuler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2011.00069/full