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Micronutrients: Supplementing seeds with zinc

Nature Plants volume 2, Article number: 16060 (2016) Cite this article

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Micronutrient deficiency in human diets that are over-reliant on cereals can have grave consequences for health. Combining genetics, grafting and multi-elemental image analysis, new research shows that two P1B-ATPases maternally export zinc inside the developing seed in Arabidopsis, offering a new strategy for crop biofortification.

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  1. Mary Lou Guerinot is in the Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA.,

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Guerinot, M. Micronutrients: Supplementing seeds with zinc. Nature Plants 2, 16060 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.60

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