Yanyu Sun , Jinyu Zhang , Donglin Guo

College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, The Molecular Genetics and Genetics Breeding Key Laboratory of Heilongjiang Provence, Harbin, 150025, China
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Plant Gene and Trait, 2020, Vol. 11, No. 8   doi: 10.5376/pgt.2020.11.0008
Received: 24 Jun., 2020    Accepted: 25 Jul., 2020    Published: 31 Aug., 2020

This article was first published in Molecular Plant Breeding in Chinese, and here was authorized to translate and publish the paper in English under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Sun Y.Y., Zhang J.Y., and Guo D.L., 2020, Advances and the application value of plant copper transporters, Plant Gene and Trait, 11(8): 1-12 (doi: 10.5376/pgt.2020.11.0008)

Copper pollution in soil leads to poor crop quality and low yield, which is a major problem in agricultural production. Plant copper transporters have functions of copper absorption, chelation, compartmentation and metabolic utilization, and participate in the regulation of copper homeostasis in plant. This review presumptively summarizes the gene expression characteristics, subcellular localization and the effecting of knockout or overexpression genes of plant copper transporters; emphatically illuminates the roles of plant copper transporters in copper uptake and root retention, long-distance transport, intracellular compartmentalization and accumulation in reproductive organs; and put forwards the research direction and prospect. The aim is to provide scientific theoretical basis for the screening and cultivation of copper-tolerant crops in order to prevent the potential threat of food safety in agricultural land with slight copper contamination, and help to establish efficient crop breeding mechanism and reasonable planting measures.

Plant; Copper contamination; Copper transporter