Phytic Acid and Transporters: What Can We Learn from low phytic acid Mutants.

ABSTRACT: Phytic acid has two main roles in plant tissues: Storage of phosphorus and regulation of different cellular processes. From a nutritional point of view, it is considered an antinutritional compound because, being a cation chelator, its presence reduces mineral bioavailability from the diet. In recent decades, the development of low phytic acid (lpa) mutants has been an important goal for nutritional seed quality improvement, mainly in cereals and legumes. Different lpa mutations affect phytic acid biosynthetic genes. However, other lpa mutations isolated so far, affect genes coding for three classes of transporters: A specific group of ABCC type vacuolar transporters, putative sulfate transporters, and phosphate transporters. In the present review, we summarize advance

SUBMITTER: Cominelli E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7020491 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature