Plant calcium content: Ready to remodel

Nutrients

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1120-1136

  Yang, Jian ^a   Punshon, Tracy ^b   Guerinot, Mary Lou ^b   Hirschi, Kendal D ^a,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antinutrient; Bioavailability; Biofortification; Bone mineralization; Calcium; Oxalate; Synchrotron X ray fluorescence (SXRF)

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

BONE MINERALIZATION; CALCIUM ABSORPTION; CROP IMPROVEMENT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PROCESSING; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HUMAN; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PLANT NUTRIENT; PLANT TISSUE; REVIEW; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84870313058     PISSN: 20726643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu4081120     Document Type: Review

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