Genome-wide association mapping identifies a new arsenate reductase enzyme critical for limiting arsenic accumulation in plants

Inorganic arsenic is a carcinogen, and its ingestion through foods such as rice presents a significant risk to human health. Plants chemically reduce arsenate to arsenite. Using genome-wide association (GWA) mapping of loci controlling natural variation in arsenic accumulation in Arabidopsis thalian...

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Main Authors: Chao, Dai-Yin, Chen, Yi, Chen, Jiugeng, Shi, Shulin, Chen, Ziru, Wang, Chengcheng, Danku, John, Zhao, Fang-Jie, Salt, David E.
Format: Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40116/