Ethylene is critical to the maintenance of primary root growth and Fe homeostasis under Fe stress in Arabidopsis

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank Dr Peter Doener (University of Edinburgh), Ben Scheres (Utrecht University), Dr Guohua Mi (China Agricultural University) and Dr Ningning Wang (Nankai University) for providing the CycB1::GUS, QC25::GUS, and AtACS7::GUS transgenic lines, and the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Centre of Ohio State University for mutant seeds. We also thank Dr Caifu Jiang (China Agricultural University) for providing the eto2-1, etr1-3, and eto1-1letr1-3 lines. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31300210 and 41171234) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC, Discovery Grant 217277-2009).