UMass Amherst biologist will study plants' iron regulating system

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Scientists one thought that genes could be turned on to make plants take up more iron from the soil, enriching cereals, grains and other staple foods that feed millions of people around the world an iron-poor diet leading to iron deficiency anemia, says molecular biologist Elsbeth Walker at UMass Amherst. 'But it didn't work,' she adds. 'Somehow the plants downregulated our efforts, and we don't understand how.' Now she has an $870,000 grant to figure this out.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/uoma-uab040318.php

Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 3, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news