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Article: One-third of Americans have iron deficiency.
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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The World Health Organization has estimated that more than one-third of the world's population has iron deficiency, making it the most prevalent nutritional problem in the world today. However, a researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia is taking steps to help change those statistics for the betterment of society.
Elizabeth Rogers, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences, is trying to understand how plants acquire iron from the soil and how to identify and characterize the genes involved in iron sensing, regulation, and transport in plants. Understanding iron uptake in plants is extremely important because one-third of the world's soils are deficient ...