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Cadmium partitioning in trangenic tobacco plants expressing a mammalian metallothionein gene

1998-01-01

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Among the plant species cultivated for human consumption, tobacco is one that accumulates cadmium to a significant degree. In order to reduce the Cd levels in tobacco leaves, we have introduced into the tobacco genome a gene encoding a mammalian metallothionein, since these low-molecular-weight cysteine-rich proteins fix Cd and other heavy metals. Here we describe the Cd accumulation characteristics observed durin...

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Literature Corpus work: e0745e1c-298b-546d-8ddd-671d9cd62bd8
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009669412489

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