Enhanced iron and zinc accumulation in transgenic rice with the ferritin gene

By Marta W. Vasconcelos, K. Datta, N. Oliva, M. Khalekuzzaman, L. Torrizo, S. Krishnan, Margarida M. Oliveira, F. Goto, S. Datta. 2003

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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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1. Akhilesh K. Tyagi
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1. N. Nishizawa
2. Martin R. Broadley
3. Yasuhiro Ishimaru
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6. Marta W. Vasconcelos
7. Ismail Cakmak
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Citations in the corpus

• Chapter 4 Iron Dynamics in the Rhizosphere: Consequences for Plant Health and Nutrition (2008, neutral): “, 1999), rice (O. sativa, Goto et al., 1999; Lucca et al., 2001; Vasconcelos et al., 2003), wheat (T.”
• Producing more with less: Strategies and novel technologies for plant-based food biofortification (2013, background): “In terms of nutrient localization in the grain, Fe and Zn are mostly stored in the embryo and the aleurone layer (Vasconcelos et al., 2003), and the endosperm itself is very poor in terms of micronutrient content.”
• Iron Uptake and Loading into Rice Grains (2010, background): “Plants expressing ferritin accumulated more Fe in the seed endosperm compared to WT plants (Goto et al. 1999; Vasconcelos et al. 2003).”
• Does increased zinc uptake enhance grain zinc mass concentration in rice (2008, neutral): “Considerable efforts are undertaken to reach this goal through breeding (Graham et al., 1999; Cakmak et al., 2000; Toenniessen 2002; Vasconcelos et al., 2003), but understanding of the underlying processes is still partly lacking and would facilitate such breeding programmes (Clemens et al.”
• Zinc biofortification in rice: leveraging agriculture to moderate hidden hunger in developing countries (2018, background): “The expression of soybean ferritin genes in rice has increased both Fe and Zn concentration in seeds (Vasconcelos et al. 2003).”
• Economics of biofortification (2007, neutral): “1999; Lucca et al., 2001; Murray-Kolb et al., 2002), rice that is rich both in iron and zinc (Vasconcelos et al., 2003), iron-rich maize (Drakakaki et al., 2005), and beta-carotene-rich potato (Ducreux et al., 2005).”
• Mechanism of Zinc absorption in plants: uptake, transport, translocation and accumulation (2016, background): “Transgenic rice overexpressing Os NAS (i.e. for nicotianamine synthase; Lee et al. 2011; Johnson et al. 2011), Gmferritin (Vasconcelos et al. 2003) resulted in increased Zn concentrations of leaves and seeds.”
• Breeding for increased grain protein and micronutrient content in wheat: Ten years of the GPC-B1 gene (2017, background): “, 2014) and genes encoding the Fe storage protein FERRITIN (SoyferH1, SoyferH2þ, OsFer2 and OsFerC genes) also result in increased Fe and Zn content in cereal grains (Goto et al., 1999; Oliva et al., 2014; Paul et al., 2014, 2012; Vasconcelos et al., 2003).”
• Advances in Transgenic Rice Biotechnology (2007, background): “Iron content in seed also has been enhanced by expressing FERRITIN gene in endosperm (Goto et al., 1999; Vasconcelos et al., 2003).”