[International Review of Cytology] Volume 200 || Cell biology of aluminum toxicity and tolerance in higher plants

✍ Scribed by Matsumoto, Hideaki

• Book ID: 118162877
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 501 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0123646049
• ISSN: 0074-7696
• DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(00)00001-2

✦ Synopsis

The understanding of Al stress in plants is important for stable food production in future. Al is a complicated ion in its chemical form and biological function. In this chapter, mechanisms of Al toxicity and tolerance proposed during the past few decades as well as future topics are described from physiological and molecular points of view.