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ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY, VOL 61
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages 535-559Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042809-112152
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arsenic biogeochemistry; arsenic speciation; arsenic methylation; arsenic toxicity
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F004184/1, BB/F004087/1, BB/H006303/1, BBF0041841] Funding Source: Medline
- BBSRC [BB/H006303/1, BB/F004087/1, BB/F004184/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Arsenic (As) is an environmental and food chain contaminant. Excessive accumulation of As, particularly inorganic arsenic (As-i), in rice (Oryza sativa) poses a potential health risk to populations with high rice consumption. Rice is efficient at As accumulation owing to flooded paddy cultivation that leads to arsenite mobilization, and the inadvertent yet efficient uptake of arsenite through the silicon transport pathway. Iron, phosphorus, sulfur, and silicon interact strongly with As during its route from soil to plants. Plants take up arsenate through the phosphate transporters, and arsenite and undissociated methylated As species through the nodulin 26-like intrinsic (NIP) aquaporin channels. Arsenate is readily reduced to arsenite in planta, which is detoxified by complexation with thiol-rich peptides such as phytochelatins and/or vacuolar sequestration. A range of mitigation methods, from agronomic measures and plant breeding to genetic modification, may be employed to reduce As uptake by food crops.
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