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Balancing of sulfur storage in maize seed

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Plant Biology, May 2012
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Title
Balancing of sulfur storage in maize seed
Published in
BMC Plant Biology, May 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2229-12-77
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Authors

Yongrui Wu, Wenqin Wang, Joachim Messing

Abstract

A balanced composition of amino acids in seed flour is critical because of the demand on essential amino acids for nutrition. However, seed proteins in cereals like maize, the crop with the highest yield, are low in lysine, tryptophan, and methionine. Although supplementation with legumes like soybean can compensate lysine deficiency, both crops are also relatively low in methionine. Therefore, understanding the mechanism of methionine accumulation in the seed could be a basis for breeding cultivars with superior nutritional quality.

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Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 49 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Paraguay 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Unknown 47 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 22%
Student > Postgraduate 6 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 10%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 10 20%
Unknown 10 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 47%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 10%
Environmental Science 2 4%
Chemical Engineering 1 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 2%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 13 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 March 2019.
All research outputs
#7,414,160
of 22,668,244 outputs
Outputs from BMC Plant Biology
#634
of 3,207 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#54,677
of 165,091 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Plant Biology
#4
of 19 outputs
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