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ReviewPlant communications2025

Barriers and carriers for transition metal homeostasis in plants.

Zhen-Fei Chao, Dai-Yin Chao

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Review in Plant communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Nickel Toxicity in Plants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zhen-Fei ChaoNational Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China; Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics & Crop Plant Research (IPK) OT Gatersleben, Corrensstr 3, 06466 Seeland, Germany.
Dai-Yin ChaoNational Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China. Electronic address: dychao@cemps.ac.cn.

Funding

Non-US Government Research Support type
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transition metals are types of metals with high chemical activity. They play critical roles in plant growth, development, reproduction, and environmental adaptation, as well as in human health. However, the acquisition, transport, and storage of these metals pose specific challenges due to their high reactivity and poor solubility. In addition, distinct yet interconnected apoplastic and symplastic diffusion barriers impede their movement throughout plants. To overcome these obstacles, plants have evolved sophisticated carrier systems to facilitate metal transport, relying on the tight coordination of vesicles, enzymes, metallochaperones, low-molecular-weight metal ligands, and membrane transporters for metals, ligands, and metal-ligand complexes. This review highlights recent advances in the homeostasis of transition metals in plants, focusing on the barriers to transition metal transport and the carriers that facilitate their passage through these barriers.

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HomeostasisMetalsPlantsTransition ElementsBiological TransportMetalsTransition Elementsbarriercarrierevolutionhomeostasismetaltransport

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PMID39731291
PMCPMC11897463

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