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Research Project:
POTATO GENETICS, CYTOGENETICS, DISEASE RESISTANCE, AND PRE-BREEDING UTILIZING WILD AND CULTIVATED SPECIES
Location: Vegetable Crops Research Unit
Title: Membrane Transport
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Bethke, Paul
| | Gassman, Walter - UNIV OF MISSOURI | | Ward, John - UNIV OF MINNESOTA | | Schroeder, Julian - UNIV OF CA SAN DIEGO |
Submitted to: Book Chapter
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: June 23, 2009
Publication Date: N/A
Technical Abstract:
The selective movement and redistribution of ions and small organic molecules is essential for plant growth and cellular homeostasis. Because of this, plants have evolved numerous proteins that facilitate the transport of minerals, sugars, metabolites, and other compounds through the limiting membranes of cells and organelles. These membrane transporters are selective for the compound being transported, and their activities are often tightly regulated. Membrane transporters are usually members of multigene families that show developmental and tissue-specific expression. How the activities of individual transporters are coordinated at the cell or tissue level is beginning to be understood.
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