Plant adaptation to acid soils: The molecular basis for crop aluminum resistance

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2015, Pages 571-598

  Kochian, Leon V ^a   Piñeros, Miguel A ^a   Liu, Jiping ^a   Magalhaes, Jurandir V ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b EMBRAPA MILHO E SORGO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ALMT; Aluminum exclusion; Aluminum resistance; Aluminum tolerance; MATE; Root organic acid exudation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; SOIL; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PH; PLANT; PLANT GENE; SOIL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALUMINUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; SOIL;

EID: 84928893389     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-043014-114822     Document Type: Article

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