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Establishment of tools for investigating pyoverdine impact on iron homeostasis and plant defense responses

2013

Iron, the fourth major element in the Earth crust, is essential for growth and development of living organisms. However, due to its low solubility in the soil, it is weakly available for plants and micro-organisms. To efficiently assimilate iron, living organisms have evolved specific strategies. In plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana three trans-membrane proteins are involved in iron assimilation while in bacteria such as Pseudomonas fluorescens iron is taken up from the soil thanks to molecules displaying high affinity for iron called siderophores. It has been recently shown that pyoverdine, the major siderophore of the beneficial bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens, is assimilated by A. th…