Publications by authors named "Lucas R Ponte"
NAC transcription factors are plant-specific proteins involved in many processes during the plant life cycle and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Previous studies have shown that stress-induced OsNAC5 from rice (Oryza sativa L.) is up-regulated by senescence and might be involved in control of iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) concentrations in rice seeds.
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- Copper is vital for plant photosynthesis, specifically for the function of plastocyanin in electron transfer at thylakoid membranes.
- In rice, a transporter called OsHMA5 is crucial for moving copper from roots to shoots, and its deficiency leads to greater copper susceptibility in plant shoots.
- Analysis shows that while some copper transporters respond to deficiency in both wild-type and mutant plants, there are notable differences compared to the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana, indicating a partially conserved copper economy response in rice.
Despite being evolved in shaded environments, most coffee (Coffea arabica L.) is cultivated worldwide under sparse shade or at full sunlight. Coffee is ranked as greatly responsive to climate change (CC), and shading has been considered an important management strategy for mitigating the harmful CC outcomes on the crop.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient that is frequently inaccessible to plants. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) plants employ the Combined Strategy for Fe uptake, which is composed by all features of Strategy II, common to all Poaceae species, and some features of Strategy I, common to non-Poaceae species.
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