Publications by authors named "Kathleen Schellin"
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- Phytic acid in grains and oilseeds is hard for monogastric animals to digest, harming both nutrition and the environment.
- Breeding efforts have struggled with traits linked to reducing phytic acid, particularly in maize, due to other negative agronomic traits.
- Researchers found that silencing a specific transporter gene in maize leads to seeds with low phytic acid and normal growth, offering a simpler way to improve crops without the downside of recessive mutations.
The ligand-gated ion channel family includes receptors for serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT), acetylcholine, GABA, and glutamate. Drugs targeting subtypes of these receptors have proven useful for the treatment of various neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders. To identify new ligand-gated ion channels as potential therapeutic targets, drafts of human genome sequence were interrogated.
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