Tracking Se Assimilation and Speciation through the Rice Plant - Nutrient Competition, Toxicity and Distribution.

Up to 1 billion people are affected by low intakes of the essential nutrient selenium (Se) due to low concentrations in crops. Biofortification of this micronutrient in plants is an attractive way of increasing dietary Se levels. We investigated a promising method of Se biofortification of rice seed...

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Main Authors: Alexandra K Nothstein, Elisabeth Eiche, Michael Riemann, Peter Nick, Lenny H E Winkel, Jörg Göttlicher, Ralph Steininger, Rita Brendel, Matthias von Brasch, Gabriele Konrad, Thomas Neumann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4846085?pdf=render