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Calcium storage in plants and the implications for calcium biofortification

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Calcium (Ca) is an essential nutrient for plants and animals, with key structural and signalling roles, and its deficiency in plants can result in poor biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, reduced crop quality and yield. Likewise, low Ca intake in humans has been linked to various diseases (e.g. rickets, osteoporosis, hypertension and colorectal cancer) which can threaten quality of life and have major economic costs. Biofortification of various food crops with Ca has been suggested as a good method to enhance human intake of Ca and is advocated as an economically and environmentally advantageous strategy. Efforts to enhance Ca content of crops via transgenic means have had promising results. Overall Ca content of transgenic plants has been increased but in some cases adverse affects on plant function have been observed. This suggests that a better understanding of how Ca ions (Ca2+) are stored and transported through plants is required to maximise the effectiveness of future approaches.

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Notes

  1. In this article, the term apoplasmic is used to refer to transport through the apoplasm, and symplasmic through the symplasm. The term apoplast and symplast are used only when referring to growth deformation of plant tissue (following Erickson 1986).

Abbreviations

At :

Arabidopsis thaliana

Arabidopsis:

Arabidopsis thaliana

Ca:

Calcium

Ca2+ :

Calcium ion(s)

[x]:

Concentration of x

CDC2a:

Cell division cycle 2a gene promoter

CMV:

Cauliflower mosaic virus

EDTA:

Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

ER:

Endoplasmic reticulum

PM:

Plasma membrane

RDI:

Recommended daily intake

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Work in our laboratory is supported by the Australian Research Council and the Faculty of Sciences, University of Adelaide. MD is supported by a doctoral scholarship from the Sarawak Government, Malaysia.

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Dayod, M., Tyerman, S.D., Leigh, R.A. et al. Calcium storage in plants and the implications for calcium biofortification. Protoplasma 247, 215–231 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00709-010-0182-0

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