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Comprehensive Overview of Iron Nutrition and Deficiency: Uptake, Transport and Metabolism in Legumes
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: Received: 29 March 2019 / Approved: 1 April 2019 / Online: 1 April 2019 (13:58:08 CEST)
How to cite: Sowbiya, M. Comprehensive Overview of Iron Nutrition and Deficiency: Uptake, Transport and Metabolism in Legumes. Preprints 2019, 2019040023. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201904.0023.v1 Sowbiya, M. Comprehensive Overview of Iron Nutrition and Deficiency: Uptake, Transport and Metabolism in Legumes. Preprints 2019, 2019040023. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201904.0023.v1
Abstract
Legumes are important sources of nitrogen and, therefore, the nitrogen fixing ability of the legume-rhizobia symbiosis has great potential to improve crop yields or reduce nitrogen fertilizer use. Unfortunately, legumes face serious and increasing threats of both biotic and abiotic stresses among which Fe-deficiency has been increased from past years. Fe nutrient deficiency limits pulse production and nitrogen fixation by specifically affecting any one of the four phases of legume-rhizobium symbiosis. Although Fe in soil is often present in adequate quantities, it is mainly present in insoluble Fe-(III) precipitates, limiting its uptake and utilization. The present review has focused on the iron nutrition and deficiency and probable uptake, transport and metabolism in legumes.
Keywords
Fe-uptake, Fe-transport, Fe-deficiency, Legumes
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Biology and Biotechnology
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