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SlbHLH068 interacts with FER to regulate the iron-deficiency response in tomato.
Annals of botany - 1 Jul 2015
Du Juan, Huang Zongan, Wang Biao, Sun Hua, Chen Chunlin, Ling Hong-Qing, Wu Huilan
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Iron is an essential micronutrient for all organisms and its uptake, translocation, distribution and utilization are regulated in a complex manner in plants. FER, isolated from tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), was the first transcription factor involved in the iron homeostasis of higher plants to be identified. A FER defect in the T3238fer mutant drastically downregulates the expression of iron...
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