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Fission yeast HMT1 lowers seed cadmium through phytochelatin-dependent vacuolar sequestration in Arabidopsis.
Plant physiology - 1 Apr 2012
Huang Jing, Zhang Yu, Peng Jia-Shi, Zhong Chen, Yi Hong-Ying, Ow David W, Gong Ji-Ming
Abstract excerpt
Much of our dietary uptake of heavy metals is through the consumption of plants. A long-sought strategy to reduce chronic exposure to heavy metals is to develop plant varieties with reduced accumulation in edible tissues. Here, we describe that the fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) phytochelatin (PC)-cadmium (Cd) transporter SpHMT1 produced in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) was localized to tonoplast,...
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