Nicotianamine synthase overexpression positively modulates iron homeostasis-related genes in high iron rice

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Meng ^a   Gruissem, Wilhelm ^a   Bhullar, Navreet K ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biofortification; Expression profiling; Homeostasis; Iron; NFP rice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891441555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00156     Document Type: Article

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