Chelators of iron and their role in plant's iron management

Sangita Dey; Preetom Regon; Saradia Kar; Sanjib Kumar Panda

doi:10.1007/s12298-020-00841-y

Chelators of iron and their role in plant's iron management

Physiol Mol Biol Plants. 2020 Aug;26(8):1541-1549. doi: 10.1007/s12298-020-00841-y. Epub 2020 Jul 7.

Authors

Sangita Dey¹, Preetom Regon¹, Saradia Kar¹, Sanjib Kumar Panda^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University, Silchar, 788011 India.
² Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, Rajasthan 305817 India.

Abstract

Proper transport of metal and their homeostasis is very crucial for the growth and development of plants. Plants root are the primary organs which comes in contact with the stress and thus few modifications occurs, often determining the nutrient efficiency or sometimes as a stress tolerance mechanism. Plant utilizes two strategies for the uptake of iron viz, strategy I-reduction based and strategy II-chelation based. In this review we attempted for a better understanding of how the chelators acts in the mechanism of iron uptake from soils to plants and how iron is distributed in the plants.

Keywords: Chelators; Gene regulators; Iron homeostasis; Iron translocation; Iron uptake strategies.

Publication types

Review