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| Domingues,Douglas Silva; Leite,Susi Meire Maximino; Farro,Ana Paula Cazerta; Coscrato,Virgínia Elias; Mori,Edson Seizo; Furtado,Edson Luiz; Wilcken,Carlos Frederico; Velini,Edivaldo Domingues; Guerrini,Iraë Amaral; Maia,Ivan Godoy; Marino,Celso Luis. |
| Boron (B) is a low mobility plant micronutrient whose molecular mechanisms of absorption and translocation are still controversial. Many factors are involved in tolerance to Boron excess or deficiency. Recently, the first protein linked to boron transport in biological systems, BOR1, was characterized in Arabidopsis thaliana. This protein is involved in boron xylem loading and is similar to bicarbonate transporters found in animals. There are indications that BOR1 is a member of a conserved protein family in plants. In this work, FORESTS database was used to identify sequences similar to this protein family, looking for a probable BOR1 homolog in eucalypt. We found five consensus sequences similar to BOR1; three of them were then used in multiple alignment... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Eucalyptus; Boron; Xylem loading; Expressed Sequence Tag (EST); BOR1. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572005000400017 |
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| Marino,Celso Luís; Leite,Susi Meire Maximino; Farro,Ana Paula Cazerta; Sassaki,Flávio Tetsuo; Campos,Henrique Luis Veronezi de; Coscrato,Virgínia Elias. |
| Until the mid 1950s, boron was believed to play an important role in the transport of sugars in plants. However, boron actually depends on sugar alcohols to be taken up by the plant. In some cases, the main sugars involved in this process are sorbitol and mannitol which form stable complexes with boron. In this study, the sequences of the SugarCane EST Genome Project (SUCEST) database were searched for enzymes involved in the metabolism of these sugars by comparing them with enzymes from other organisms. Eighteen contigs from sugarcane (Saccharum sp.) presented high similarity with 11 enzymes involved in the putative biosynthetic pathway of sorbitol and mannitol from fructose in sugarcane. Seven of these contigs had high homology with sequences deposited... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Boron; Expressed sequence tags (ESTs); Polyols; Sugar alcohol. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162003000400017 |
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