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SUBMITTER: Beasley JT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6683067 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beasley Jesse T JT Hart Jonathan J JJ Tako Elad E Glahn Raymond P RP Johnson Alexander A T AAT
Nutrients 20190630 7
Nicotianamine (NA) is a low-molecular weight metal chelator in plants with high affinity for ferrous iron (Fe<sup>2+</sup>) and other divalent metal cations. In graminaceous plant species, NA serves as the biosynthetic precursor to 2' deoxymugineic acid (DMA), a root-secreted mugineic acid family phytosiderophore that chelates ferric iron (Fe<sup>3+</sup>) in the rhizosphere for subsequent uptake by the plant. Previous studies have flagged NA and/or DMA as enhancers of Fe bioavailability in cere ...[more]