Zinc deficiency is a serious problem for
almost half the worlds population leading to extensive
health related costs for the affected people. In order to
restrain the problem with zinc deficiency it will be
necessary to develop crop plants with a higher bioavailable
content of minerals that frequently cause malnutrition. To
improve the zinc content in cereal plants a better
understanding is needed of all the mechanisms involved in
zinc uptake from the soil, the transporting pathways in the
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