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Botanists have come to understand the channels and transporters involved in the uptake and transport of nutrients, yet how are they positioned where they need to be?

Osaka Metropolitan UniversityOct 30 2024

A research group led by Professor Junpei Takano of Osaka Metropolitan University's Graduate School of Agriculture identified a mutant line of Arabidopsis thaliana in which the boric acid channels are not properly transported to the plasma membrane. The cause was a deficiency in the protein KAONASHI3 ; the name kaonashi was given in 2008 by a research team under Nagoya University Associate Professor Sumie Ishiguro, who is also an author of the current study.

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