Responses of plants to iron, zinc and copper deficiencies.
Iron, copper and zinc are essential metals for cell metabolism. Plants have evolved different schemes to efficiently mobilize low-solubility nutrients such as metals from their environment and to transport them between organs. In this review we highlight the divergences and convergences of the iron, copper and zinc uptake, transport and homoeostatic pathways.
Department of Nutrition and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 95720, USA. wintz@uclink.berkeley.edu
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D003300:Copper / Q000378:metabolism*; D007501:Iron / Q000378:metabolism*; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism*; D015032:Zinc / Q000378:metabolism*
D003300:Copper; D007501:Iron; D015032:Zinc