Zinc plays many essential roles in life. As a strong Lewis acid that lacks redox activity under
environmental and cellular conditions, the Zn 2+ cation is central in determining protein …

It has been estimated that one-third of the world's population lack sufficient Zn for adequate
nutrition. This can be alleviated by increasing dietary Zn intakes through Zn biofortification of …

Zinc (Zn) deficiency hampers the crop yield, nutritional quality and ultimately the human
health. Plant growth-promoting endophyte transform unavailable Zn to available form for …

Background Rice is the primary source of food for billions of people in develo** countries,
yet the commonly consumed polished grain contains insufficient levels of the key …

Understanding the distribution of elements within plant tissues is important across a range of
fields in plant science. In this review, we examine synchrotron-based x-ray fluorescence …

Motivated by the challenge of capturing complex hierarchical chemical detail in natural
material from a wide range of applications, the Maia detector array and integrated realtime …

An important goal of micronutrient biofortification is to enhance the amount of bioavailable
zinc in the edible seed of cereals and more specifically in the endosperm. The picture is …

Highlights•Different anti-nutritional factors (ANFs) may act simultaneously on mineral
bioaccessibility.•Localization of minerals and their ANFs in plants can influence mineral …

Background and aims Crop biofortification programs require fast, accurate and inexpensive
methods of identifying nutrient dense genotypes. This study investigated energy-dispersive …

Knowledge of mineral localization within rice grains is important for understanding the role
of different elements in seed development, as well as for facilitating biofortification of seed …