Vascular bundle cell-specific expression of a phosphate transporter improves phosphate use efficiency of transgenic Arabidopsis without detrimental effects
Yuichi Tada, Aoi Shimizu · 2024
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Description
Yuichi Tada and Aoi Shimizu grow plants that use phosphate with more care, in a study from 2024. Phosphate is a key plant food, but too much in a plant can stunt growth. Whole-plant boosts of the uptake gene tend to cross that line.
The pair put the gene to work just in the root's pipe tissue, the lanes that load food to the shoot. Those plants grew larger shoots on both rich and poor food. Roots held more phosphate, and sap in the pipes ran rich when food was scarce. Guard genes that stash spare food in cell sacs woke up to keep levels safe. The trick adds a route to crops that yield more on less feed, sans the stunt that sank past tries.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yuichi Tada, Aoi Shimizu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |