It has long been known that chemical element number 12 in the periodic table, long known as gall in Hungarian, i.e. magnesium, plays a crucial role in plant and animal organisms. However, many details of his registration and transfer are still unknown.
An international research group — including Katalin Solimosi, assistant professor in ELTE’s Institute of Biology — recently revealed the role of plants’ uptake of magnesium in photosynthesis and the development of plants’ green pigments. Published in Frontiers in Plant Science their results This is due to the presence of proteins that carry magnesium, which is necessary in the process of plant metabolism. Readable Presented by the ELTE Biology Institute.
It is already known that many plant proteins, including some photosynthetic enzymes that occur in green bodies, require this element in ionic form to perform their functions, but magnesium is also incorporated into the skeleton of the plant green pigment found in green bodies, chlorophyll, and plays a role in They also play an important role in the formation of the structure of photosynthetic membranes, which are called thylakoids. It is also known that 15-35 percent of the total magnesium content in plants is found in the green colored bodies.
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Green colored bodies in the plant cell
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The Swedish, Japanese, Hungarian, Danish and American research group was originally interested in how magnesium gets into the green bodies responsible for photosynthesis in plants. Therefore, gooseberry (Arabidopsis thaliana) studied the function of three previously identified proteins in a model plant. According to their observations, if even one of the magnesium-carrying transport proteins is missing, the photosynthetic activity of the chromophores is obviously reduced, which means poor plant metabolism performance, and thus plant health.
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