研究發現「鋼鐵人IRON MAN」🥊 幫你補鐵💪💪
🌱缺鐵別怕！中研院植微所施臥虎（Dr. Wolfgang Schmidt.）研究員的團隊，發現了一種小胜肽，就叫做「IRON MAN（IMA）」。
🌱IMA可幫助植物根部吸收外在環境中的鐵。此發現可望解決人們因攝鐵量不足所造成的缺鐵性貧血，已初步於番茄實驗中證實。研究成果於10月刊登於國際頂尖期刊《自然植物》（Nature Plants），並被選為重點論文。
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Iron is an essential mineral nutrient which severely affects the growth, yield, and nutritional quality of plants if not supplied in sufficient quantities. However, how plants integrate the demand of different plant parts and regulate the amount of iron taken up by roots remains largely unknown.
A team led by Dr. Wolfgang Schmidt, a Research Fellow in the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology at Academia Sinica, has identified a new family of small peptides named IRON MAN (IMA) that regulate iron homeostasis by acting as phloem-mobile signals in flowering plants. Genes encoding IMA peptides are present in the genomes of all flowering plants but are missing in ferns, algae or fungi, suggesting that these genes emerged at an early stage in the evolution of land plants. Despite their ubiquitous presence, IMA peptides have not been recognized as a family due to their highly variable sizes and structures, and their corresponding genes have remained largely undocumented.
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新聞稿：https://www.sinica.edu.tw/ch/news/6045
Press Release: https://www.sinica.edu.tw/en/news/6045
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[蘋果] 中研院找到植物吸鐵關鍵IRON MAN胜肽 盼改善人類缺鐵性貧血
https://tw.news.appledaily.com/n…/realtime/20181109/1463387/
[聯合] 缺鐵別怕！中研院發現「鋼鐵人」胜肽幫助植物補鐵
https://udn.com/news/story/7266/3470499
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