Nitrogen Metabolism in Plant Cell Suspension Cultures: II. Role of Organic Acids during Growth on Ammonia |
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| Authors: | Behrend J Mateles R I |
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| Affiliation: | Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. |
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| Abstract: | Tobacco cells (Nicotiana tabacum) are capable of growth on ammonia as a sole nitrogen source only when succinate, malate, fumarate, citrate, α-ketoglutarate, glutamate, or pyruvate is added to the growth medium. A ratio between the molar concentrations of ammonia to succinate (as a complementary organic acid) in the growth medium of 1.5 was optimal. Succinate had no effect on the rate of uptake of ammonia from the medium into the cells although it did affect the intracellular concentration of ammonia. However, the changes were not sufficient to explain inhibition of growth as being due to ammonia toxicity. The radioactivity from 14C-succinate was incorporated into malate, glutamate, and aspartate within 2 minutes. |
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