MANGANESE AS ESSENTIAL AND TOXIC ELEMENT FOR PLANTS: TRANSPORT, ACCUMULATION AND RESISTANCE MECHANISMS
2010
Millaleo, R(Universidad de La Frontera Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias de Recursos Naturales) | Reyes- Diaz, M(Universidad de La Frontera Center of Plant-Soil Interaction and Natural Resources Biotechnology Scientific and Technological Bioresource Nucleus (BIOREN),) | Ivanov, A.G(University of Western Department of Biology and the Biotron) | Mora, M.L(Universidad de La Frontera Departamento de Ciencias Químicas Center of Plant-Soil Interaction and Natural Resources Biotechnology - Scientific and TechnologicalBioresource Nucleus (BIOREN) | Alberdi, M(Universidad de La Frontera Departamento de Ciencias Químicas Center of Plant-Soil Interaction and Natural Resources Biotechnology - Scientific and TechnologicalBioresource Nucleus (BIOREN)
Manganese is an essential element for plants, intervening in several metabolic processes, mainly in photosynthesis and as an enzyme antioxidant-cofactor. Nevertheless, an excess of this micronutrient is toxic for plants. Mn phytotoxicity is manifested in a reduction of biomass and photosynthesis, and biochemical disorders such as oxidative stress. Some studies on Mn toxicity and Mn translocation from soil to plant cells in Mn2+ form have demonstrated their importance under low pH and redox potential conditions in the soil. When Mn is inside the cells, mechanisms that can tolerate this toxicity are also observed, being important the compartmentalization of this metal in different organdíes of shoot and leaf plant cells. A key role of antioxidative systems in plants in relation to high Mn amounts has also been reported as a defense mechanism. The purpose of this review is to show the role of Mn as an essential micronutrient and as a toxic element to higher plants as well as to their transport and tolerance mechanisms. The forms and dynamics of this element in soils and the importance of the acidity for this dynamic and availability for plants are also given.
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