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Plants and sodium ions: keeping company with the enemy

Plants face a dilemma about sodium metabolism. Uptake of ubiquitous sodium ions is desirable as a way to build osmotic potential, absorb water and sustain turgor, but excess sodium ions may be toxic. Information from a number of plant species about the proteins involved in sodium-ion uptake helps to...

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Autores principales: Pardo, Jose M, Quintero, Francisco J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC139373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12093381