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Cesium Uptake by Rice Roots Largely Depends Upon a Single Gene, HAK1, Which Encodes a Potassium Transporter.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Sept 2017
Rai Hiroki, Yokoyama Saki, Satoh-Nagasawa Namiko, Furukawa Jun, Nomi Takiko, Ito Yasuka, Fujimura Shigeto, Takahashi Hidekazu, Suzuki Ryuichiro, Yousra ELMannai, Goto Akitoshi, Fuji Shinichi, Nakamura Shin-Ichi, Shinano Takuro, Nagasawa Nobuhiro, Wabiko Hiroetsu, Hattori Hiroyuki
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Incidents at the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear power stations have resulted in widespread environmental contamination by radioactive nuclides. Among them, 137cesium has a 30 year half-life, and its persistence in soil raises serious food security issues. It is therefore important to prevent plants, especially crop plants, from absorbing radiocesium. In Arabidopsis thaliana, cesium ions are transported into root...
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