Genome-wide Association Mapping Identifies a New Arsenate Reductase Enzyme Critical for Limiting Arsenic Accumulation in Plants
Dai-Yin Chao,
Yi Chen,
Jiugeng Chen,
Shulin Shi,
Ziru Chen,
Chengcheng Wang,
John M. Danku,
Fang-Jie Zhao,
David E. Salt
December, 2014
Abstract
A genome-wide association study identifies the enzyme in plants that transforms arsenate into arsenite, allowing its extrusion into the soil and thereby controlling arsenic accumulation.