Critical evaluation of thein situ nitrate reductase assay |
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Authors: | J F Soussana A Gojon L Passama R Wakrim P Robin |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratoire de Recherches sur les Symbiotes des Racines (J.F.S.) and Laboratoire de Biochimie et Physiologie Végétales (CNRS URA 198), (A.G., L.P., R.W., P.R.), INRA, Place Viala, F-34000 Montpellier, France;(2) Present address: Station d'Agronomie, INRA, 12, Av. du Brézet, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France |
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Abstract: | Anin situ method, derived from anin vivo method, was used to determine nitrate reductase activity (NRA) in:i) excised barley and corn shoots and excised soybean leaves
during a N-depletion experiment and; ii) roots and shoots of N-depleted barley and corn seedlings during induction of nitrate,
reductase (NR). Nitrate reduction, calculated from thesein situ RNA measurements, was compared with estimates of each organ's nitrate reduction in light aerobic conditions from NO
3
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consumption and a15N model (Gojonet al., 1986b).
Thein situ RNA of roots strongly underestimated their15NO
3
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reduction. In contrast, in barley and corn shoots and in the first trifoliolate leaves from 26-day-old, soybean, thein situ NRA assay gave a fair approximation of the true NO
3
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reduction rate (relative differences ranging from −14 to +32%). In young soybean leaves (from 20-day-old plants), however,
thein situ NRA strongly underestimated the actual NO
3
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reduction. The physiological significance of thein situ NRA assay in shoots and roots, and its value for field studies are discussed from these results. |
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Keywords: | barley corn nitrate nitrate reductase soybean |
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