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- Title
Vacuolar sequestration capacity and long-distance metal transport in plants.
- Authors
Jia-Shi Peng; Ji-Ming Gong
- Abstract
The vacuole is a pivotal organelle functioning in storage of metabolites, mineral nutrients, and toxicants in higher plants. Accumulating evidence indicates that in addition to its storage role, the vacuole contributes essentially to long-distance transport of metals, through the modulation of Vacuolar sequestration capacity (VSC) which is shown to be primarily controlled by cytosolic metal chelators and tonoplast-localized transporters, or the interaction between them. Plants adapt to their environments by dynamic regulation of VSC for specific metals and hence targeting metals to specific tissues. Study of VSC provides not only a new angle to understand the long-distance root-to-shoot transport of minerals in plants, but also an efficient way to biofortify essential mineral nutrients or to phytoremediate non-essential metal pollution. The current review will focus on the most recent proceedings on the interaction mechanisms between VSC regulation and long-distance metal transport.
- Subjects
PLANT vacuoles; METABOLITES; PLANT metabolism; POISONS; IRON chelates; PLANT shoots; METAL transport proteins
- Publication
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014, Vol 5, p1
- ISSN
1664-462X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fpls.2014.00019