A Practical Synthesis of the Phytosiderophore 2′??Deoxymugineic Acid: A Key to the Mechanistic Study of Iron Acquisition by Graminaceous Plants

…, M Horikawa, T Iwashita, S Kusumoto

Index: Namba, Kosuke; Murata, Yoshiko; Horikawa, Manabu; Iwashita, Takashi; Kusumoto, Shoichi Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2007 , vol. 46, # 37 p. 7060 - 7063

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Abstract

Crops grown on alkaline soils, which cover about one-third of the world s land, are prone to iron-deficiency stress because of the low solubility of iron there. To acquire the insoluble iron efficiently, some graminaceous plants have developed a unique strategy characterized by the synthesis and secretion of an iron-chelator phytosiderophore and by a system for the specific uptake of iron (III) in its complex.[1] Mugineic acid (MA, 1) was first identified as a ...