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Honey, I shrunk the plants…to study iron: A tour of how iron-starved algae survive
December 14, 2020
Graduate student Helen Liu discusses how scientists are using the diversity of algae to discover novel adaptations that enable survival in low-iron nutrition, a limiting trace element for photosynthetic organisms, in the hopes of increasing crop production in iron-starved regions.