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AhNRAMP1 iron transporter is involved in iron acquisition in peanut.
Journal of experimental botany - 1 Jul 2012
Xiong Hongchun, Kobayashi Takanori, Kakei Yusuke, Senoura Takeshi, Nakazono Mikio, Takahashi Hirokazu, Nakanishi Hiromi, Shen Hongyun, Duan Penggen, Guo Xiaotong, Nishizawa Naoko K, Zuo Yuanmei
Abstract excerpt
Peanut/maize intercropping is a sustainable and effective agroecosystem to alleviate iron-deficiency chlorosis. Using suppression subtractive hybridization from the roots of intercropped and monocropped peanut which show different iron nutrition levels, a peanut gene, AhNRAMP1, which belongs to divalent metal transporters of the natural resistance-associated macrophage protein (NRAMP) gene family was isolated....
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