Medicago truncatula Ferroportin2 mediates iron import into nodule symbiosomes

What is it about?

For plants to use the nitrogen in the atmosphere as a nutrient, they have to establish a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. In legumes this is done at root nodules, where these bacteria colonize the cells at the nodule core. Iron is required for nitrogen fixation to work. Here we show the transporter responsible for iron transfer from the host plant cell to the nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacteria in model legume Medicago truncatula

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