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Introduction

Schroeder, J. I., Delhaize, E., Frommer, W. B., Guerinot, M. L., Harrison, M. J., Herrera-Estrella, L., Horie, T., Kochian, L. V., Munns, R., Nishizawa, N. K., et al. (2013) Using membrane transporters to improve crops for sustainable food production. Nature 497: 60–66.

Passive and Active Transport

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Transport of Ions across Membrane Barriers

Higinbotham, N., Etherton, B., and Foster, R. J. (1967) Mineral ion contents and cell transmembrane electropotentials of pea and oat seedling tissue. Plant Physiol. 42: 37–46.

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Spanswick, R. M. (1981) Electrogenic ion pumps. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. 32: 267–289.

Membrane Transport Processes

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Membrane Transport Proteins

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Sharma, T., Dreyer, I., and Riedelsberger, J. (2013) The role of K+ channels in uptake and redistribution of potassium in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Front. Plant Sci. 4: 224.

Sondergaard, T. E., Schulz, A., and Palmgren, M. G. (2004) Energization of transport processes in plants: Roles of the plasma membrane H+-ATPase. Plant Physiol. 136: 2475–2482.

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Ion Transport in Roots

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