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The tomato fer gene encoding a bHLH protein controls iron-uptake responses in roots.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Oct 2002
Ling Hong-Qing, Bauer Petra, Bereczky Zsolt, Keller Beat, Ganal Martin
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Iron deficiency is among the most common nutritional disorders in plants. To cope with low iron supply, plants with the exception of the Gramineae increase the solubility and uptake of iron by inducing physiological and developmental alterations including iron reduction, soil acidification, Fe(II) transport and root-hair proliferation (strategy I). The chlorotic tomato fer mutant fails to activate the strategy I....
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