Plant roots play a critical role in taking up, selecting, enriching and retaining a range of different mineral elements, thereby supplying distant plant tissues with nutrients while sequestering excessive amounts of metals. To execute such element-specific functions, a range of ion transporters present at the roots mediate the uptake, efflux and intracellular compartmentalization of different mineral elements.
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Source: Phys.org