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Improving Plants for Zinc Acquisition

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Plants require essential metals for their growth and development and uptake of mineral elements from soil is a part of mineral nutrition. The plant roots are in direct contact with soil and are involved in uptake of metal ions which are later translocated to different aerial parts, where they are subsequently used for growth, development and reproduction. Concentration of metal ions in soil and their chemical speciation change with the location and environment and plants have tightly regulated mechanisms for uptake, transport and sequestration of metals (Kramer et al., 2007). Essential metals at elevated levels and contaminant non-essential metals can be toxic to plant cells and a highly regulated network of metal homeostasis mechanisms operate for control of metal uptake, trafficking and storage (Clemens, 2001).

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  1. Plant Biotechnology and Secondary Products Section, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400 085, India

    Prachy Dixit

  2. Nuclear Agriculture Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400 085, India

    Susan Eapen (Scientific Officer, SO/H+ Section Head)

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Dixit, P., Eapen, S. (2010). Improving Plants for Zinc Acquisition. In: Fulekar, M.H. (eds) Bioremediation Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3678-0_12

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