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A gene in the multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) family confers aluminum tolerance in sorghum.
Nature genetics - 1 Sept 2007
Magalhaes Jurandir V, Liu Jiping, Guimarães Claudia T, Lana Ubiraci G P, Alves Vera M C, Wang Yi-Hong, Schaffert Robert E, Hoekenga Owen A, Piñeros Miguel A, Shaff Jon E, Klein Patricia E, Carneiro Newton P, Coelho Cintia M, Trick Harold N, Kochian Leon V
Abstract excerpt
Crop yields are significantly reduced by aluminum toxicity on highly acidic soils, which comprise up to 50% of the world's arable land. Candidate aluminum tolerance proteins include organic acid efflux transporters, with the organic acids forming non-toxic complexes with rhizosphere aluminum. In this study, we used positional cloning to identify the gene encoding a member of the multidrug and toxic compound...
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