Elucidating the expression of zinc transporters involved in zinc uptake by upland rice landraces in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Sharifianpour, Golnaz, Abdul Rahman, Zaharah, Ishak, Che Fauziah, Musa, Mohamed Hanafi, Nejat, Naghmeh, Sahebi, Mahbod, Sharifkhani, Ahmad, Azizi, Parisa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information 2013
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/52482/1/Elucidating%20the%20expression%20of%20zinc%20transporters%20involved%20in%20zinc%20uptake%20by%20upland%20rice%20landraces%20in%20Malaysia.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/52482/; http://www.aensiweb.com/old/aeb_December_2013.html

Zinc (Zn) is an essential nutrient that plays important roles in numerous physiological processes in plants, serving as a cofactor for many enzymes and as the key structural motifs in transcriptional regulatory proteins. A deficiency of Zn, therefore, decreases growth, but excess Zn has significant...