Iron Uptake in Plants (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Iron Uptake in Plants

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Researchers studied iron uptake in Arabidopsis thaliana, both the wild type (WT) and with the URI gene mutated, to learn how plants bring in iron. The removal of the URI gene (lower left photo) prevents the uptake of iron and causes the plant to die.

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Sun A Kim

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