“…Transporters of cluster I, such as AtHAK5, HvHAK1, OsHAK1, and OsHAK5, are localized in the plasma membrane (Kim et al, 1998;Bañuelos et al, 2002;Gierth et al, 2005) and exhibit high-affinity K uptake in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Santa-María et al, 1997;Fu and Luan, 1998;Rubio et al, 2000) and in Escherichia coli (Horie et al, 2011). Transporters of cluster II, like AtKUP4 (TINY ROOT HAIRS1, TRH1), HvHAK2, OsHAK2, OsHAK7, and OsHAK10, could not complement the K uptakedeficient yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) but were able to mediate K fluxes in a bacterial mutant; they might be tonoplast transporters (Senn et al, 2001;Bañuelos et al, 2002;Rodríguez-Navarro and Rubio, 2006).…”