Regulation of zinc deficiency and tolerance in plants
AssigneeWageningen Universiteit
InventorsAna Gonçalves Leite De Assunçao, Martinus Gerardus Maria Aarts
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method to change the capacity of a plant for adaptation to changes in the zinc concentration in the environment, especially the soil, comprising providing said plant with a nucleotide according to SEQ ID NO:1 or SEQ ID NO: 2 or an ortholog thereof. Such a method is especially useful to decrease Zn deficiency or to (hyper)accumulate Zn in plants for bioremediation or for biofortification. Transgenic plants for these proteins are also disclosed.
Claims7
A method to produce a modified plant, said method comprising providing said plant with a nucleic acid encoding SEQ ID NO:
- 1 operably linked to a promoter induced by zinc deficiency.
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