Earlier consumption and less processing makes sweetcorn a better source of dietary zinc.
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Erin Zimmerman
Can Early Career Researchers write reviews? The case of Zinc.
Philip White talks to Martin Broadley about how they wrote some highly-cited reviews as Early Career Researchers.
Philip White
In situ analyses of inorganic nutrient distribution in sweetcorn and maize kernels
Understanding the spatial distribution of inorganic nutrients within edible parts of plant products helps biofortification efforts to identify and focus on specific uptake pathways and storage mechanisms. Cheah et al...
Alex Assiry
The hyperactive heavy metal band
It has been said that humans try to understand plants for two reasons: Either to kill them better – e.g. if they are considered to be weeds that compete for resources with our crop plants – or to exploit them for human...
Nigel Chaffey
Reducing P uptake by plants
Some things are hard to digest, but is an excess of phosphorus really one of them?
GM crops, quantity or quality…?
GM crops can help, not only with the quantity of food produced worldwide, but also the quality. Golden Rice has enhanced levels of β-carotene.
Uptake of toxic metals by rice
Studies that do not allow for anaerobic conditions during iron plaque formation may under-estimate metal sequestration in wetland plants.
AJ Cann
Nanoparticles may compromise crops
Advances (ever an optimistic notion!) in technology take many forms and may have unanticipated consequences. Take, for example, the emerging discipline of nanotechnology, which works with structures that are...
