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Comment
. 2008 Feb 12;105(6):1777-8.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712330105. Epub 2008 Feb 6.

Biofortified and bioavailable: the gold standard for plant-based diets

Jeeyon Jeong  1 , Mary Lou Guerinot
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Biofortified and bioavailable: the gold standard for plant-based diets

Jeeyon Jeong et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Schematic diagram of sCAX1-expressing carrots showing enhanced calcium bioavailability in mice and humans. Stable isotopes, 42Ca and 46Ca, were used to trace calcium absorption in human subjects, whereas the radioactive isotope 45Ca was used for mice. sCAX1 constitutively transports calcium into the vacuole, increasing the content of bioavailable calcium in the engineered carrots. Although not drawn in this figure, the ER is another important calcium store in the cell (23). C, cytoplasm; V, vacuole.
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