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The aim of this work was to determine which of the two reactions ( i.e. phosphorylation or dephosphorylation) involved in the establishment of the phosphorylated status of the wheat leaf phospho enolpyruvate carboxylase and sucrose phosphate synthase protein responds in vivo to NO 3− uptake and assimilation. Detached mature leaves of wheat ( Triticum aestivum L. cv Fidel) were fed with N-free (low-NO 3− leaves) or 40 m m NO 3− solution (high-NO 3− leaves). The specific inhibition of the enzyme-protein kinase or phosphatase activities was obtained in vivo by addition of mannose or okadaic acid, respectively, in the uptake solution. Mannose at 50 m m, by blocking the kinase reaction, inhibited the processes of NO 3−-dependent phospho enolpyruvate carboxylase activation and sucrose phosphate synthase deactivation. Following the addition of mannose, the deactivation of phospho enolpyruvate carboxylase and the activation of sucrose phosphate synthase, both due to the enzyme-protein dephosphorylation, were at the same rate in low-NO 3− and high-NO 3− leaves, indicating that NO 3− had no effect per se on the enzyme-protein phosphatase activity. Upon treatment with okadaic acid, the higher increase of phospho enolpyruvate carboxylase and decrease of sucrose phosphate synthase activities observed in high NO 3− compared with low NO 3− leaves showed evidence that NO 3− enhanced the protein kinase activity. These results support the concept that NO 3−, or a product of its metabolism, favors the activation of phospho enolpyruvate carboxylase and deactivation of sucrose phosphate synthase in wheat leaves by promoting the light activation of the enzyme-protein kinase(s) without affecting the phosphatase(s). 相似文献
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Nitrate reduction was studied as a function of carbohydrate concentration in detached primary leaves of barley ( Hordeum vulgare L. cv Numar) seedlings under aerobic conditions in light and darkness. Seedlings were grown either in continuous light for 8 days or under a regimen of 16-hour light and 8-hour dark for 8 to 15 days. Leaves of 8-day-old seedlings grown in continuous light accumulated 4 times more carbohydrates than leaves of plants grown under a light and dark regimen. When detached leaves from these seedlings were supplied with NO 3− in darkness, those with the higher levels of carbohydrates reduced a greater proportion of the NO 3− that was taken up. In darkness, added glucose increased the percentage of NO 3− reduced up to 2.6-fold depending on the endogenous carbohydrate status of the leaves. Both NO 3− reduction and carbohydrate content of the leaves increased with age. Fructose and sucrose also increased NO 3− reduction in darkness to the same extent as glucose. Krebs cycle intermediates, citrate and succinate, did not increase NO 3− reduction, whereas malate slightly stimulated it in darkness. In light, 73 to 90% of the NO3− taken up was reduced by the detached leaves; therefore, an exogenous supply of glucose had little additional effect on NO3− reduction. The results indicate that in darkness the rate of NO3− reduction in primary leaves of barley depends upon the availability of carbohydrates. 相似文献
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An experiment was conducted to investigate the reduction of endogenous NO 3−, which had been taken up by plants in darkness, during the course of the subsequent light period. Vegetative, nonnodulated soybean plants ( Glycine max [L]. Merrill, `Ransom') were exposed to 1.0 millimolar 15NO 3− for 12 hours in darkness and then returned to a solution containing 1.0 millimolar 14NO 3− for the 12 hours `chase' period in the light. Another set of plants was exposed to 15NO 3− during the light period to allow a direct comparison of contributions of substrate from the endogenous and exogenous sources. At the end of the 15NO 3− exposure in the dark, 70% of the absorbed 15NO 3− remained unreduced, and 83% of this unreduced NO 3− was retained in roots. The pool of endogenous 15NO 3− in roots was depleted at a steady rate during the initial 9 hours of light and was utilized almost exclusively in the formation of insoluble reduced-N in leaves. Unlabeled endogenous NO 3−, which had accumulated in the root prior to the previous dark period, also was depleted in the light. When exogenous 15NO 3− was supplied during the light period, the rate of assimilation progressively increased, reflecting an increased rate of uptake and decreased accumulation of NO 3− in the root tissue. The dark-absorbed endogenous NO 3− in the root was the primary source of substrate for whole-plant NO 3− reduction in the first 6 hours of the light period, and exogenous NO 3− was the primary source of substrate thereafter. It is concluded that retention of NO 3− in roots in darkness and its release in the following light period is an important whole-plant regulatory mechanism which serves to coordinate delivery of substrate with the maximal potential for NO 3− assimilation in photosynthetic tissues. 相似文献
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The regulation of NO 3− assimilation by xylem flux of NO 3− was studied in illuminated excised leaves of soybean ( Glycine max L. Merr. cv Kingsoy). The supply of exogenous NO 3− at various concentrations via the transpiration stream indicated that the xylem flux of NO 3− was generally rate-limiting for NO 3− reduction. However, NO 3− assimilation rate was maintained within narrow limits as compared with the variations of the xylem flux of NO 3−. This was due to considerable remobilization and assimilation of previously stored endogenous NO 3− at low exogenous NO 3− delivery, and limitation of NO 3− reduction at high xylem flux of NO 3−, leading to a significant accumulation of exogenous NO 3−. The supply of 15NO 3− to the leaves via the xylem confirmed the labile nature of the NO 3− storage pool, since its half-time for exchange was close to 10 hours under steady state conditions. When the xylem flux of 15NO 3− increased, the proportion of the available NO 3− which was reduced decreased similarly from nearly 100% to less than 50% for both endogenous 14NO 3− and exogenous 15NO 3−. This supports the hypothesis that the assimilatory system does not distinguish between endogenous and exogenous NO 3− and that the limitation of NO 3− reduction affected equally the utilization of NO 3− from both sources. It is proposed that, in the soybean leaf, the NO 3− storage pool is particularly involved in the short-term control of NO 3− reduction. The dynamics of this pool results in a buffering of NO 3− reduction against the variations of the exogenous NO 3− delivery. 相似文献
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In soybean ( Glycine max L. Merr. cv Kingsoy), NO 3− assimilation in leaves resulted in production and transport of malate to roots (B Touraine, N Grignon, C Grignon [1988] Plant Physiol 88: 605-612). This paper examines the significance of this phenomenon for the control of NO 3− uptake by roots. The net NO 3− uptake rate by roots of soybean plants was stimulated by the addition of K-malate to the external solution. It was decreased when phloem translocation was interrupted by hypocotyl girdling, and partially restored by malate addition to the medium, whereas glucose was ineffective. Introduction of K-malate into the transpiration stream using a split root system resulted in an enrichment of the phloem sap translocated back to the roots. This treatment resulted in an increase in both NO 3− uptake and C excretion rates by roots. These results suggest that NO 3− uptake by roots is dependent on the availability of shoot-borne, phloem-translocated malate. Shoot-to-root transport of malate stimulated NO 3− uptake, and excretion of HCO 3− ions was probably released by malate decarboxylation. NO 3− uptake rate increased when the supply of NO 3− to the shoot was increased, and decreased when the activity of nitrate reductase in the shoot was inhibited by WO 42−. We conclude that in situ, NO 3− reduction rate in the shoot may control NO 3− uptake rate in the roots via the translocation rate of malate in the phloem. 相似文献
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In vivo NO 3− reduction in roots and shoots of intact barley ( Hordeum vulgare L. var Numar) seedlings was estimated in light and darkness. Seedlings were placed in darkness for 24 hours to make them carbohydrate-deficient. During darkness, the leaves lost 75% of their soluble carbohydrates, whereas the roots lost only 15%. Detached leaves from these plants reduced only 7% of the NO 3− absorbed in darkness. By contrast, detached roots from the seedlings reduced the same proportion of absorbed NO 3−, as did roots from normal light-grown plants. The rate of NO 3− reduction in the roots accounted for that found in the intact dark-treated carbohydrate-deficient seedlings. The rates of NO 3− reduction in roots of intact plants were the same for approximately 12 hours, both in light and darkness, after which the NO 3− reduction rate in roots of plants placed in darkness slowly declined. In the dark, approximately 40% of the NO 3− reduction occurred in the roots, whereas in light only 20% of the total NO 3− reduction occurred in roots. A lesser proportion was reduced in roots because the leaves reduced more nitrate in light than in darkness. 相似文献
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The effects of several photosynthetic inhibitors and uncouplers of oxidative phosphorylation on NO 3− and NO 2− assimilation were studied using detached barley ( Hordeum vulgare L. cv Numar) leaves in which only endogenous NO 3− or NO 2− were available for reduction. Uncouplers of oxidative phosphorylation greatly increased NO 3− reduction in both light and darkness, while photosynthetic inhibitors did not. The NO2− concentration in the control leaves was very low in both light and darkness; 98% or more of the NO2− formed from NO3− was further assimilated in control leaves. More NO2− accumulated in the leaves in light and darkness in the presence of photosynthetic inhibitors. Of this NO2−, 94% or more was further assimilated. It appears that metabolites, either external or internal to the chloroplast, capable of reducing NADP (which, in turn, could reduce ferredoxin via NADP reductase) might support NO2− reduction in darkness and light when photosynthetic electron flow is inhibited by photosynthetic inhibitors. Nitrite assimilation was much more sensitive to uncouplers in darkness than in light: in darkness, 74% or more of NO2− formed from NO3− was further assimilated, whereas in light, 95% or more of the NO2− was further assimilated. 相似文献
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Using 13NO 3−, effects of various NO 3− pretreatments upon NO 3− influx were studied in intact roots of barley ( Hordeum vulgare L. cv Klondike). Prior exposure of roots to NO 3− increased NO 3− influx and net NO 3− uptake. This `induction' of NO 3− uptake was dependent both on time and external NO 3− concentration ([NO 3−]). During induction influx was positively correlated with root [NO 3−]. In the postinduction period, however, NO 3− influx declined as root [NO 3−] increased. It is suggested that induction and negative feedback regulation are independent processes: Induction appears to depend upon some critical cytoplasmic [NO 3−]; removal of external NO 3− caused a reduction of 13NO 3− influx even though mean root [NO 3−] remained high. It is proposed that cytoplasmic [NO 3−] is depleted rapidly under these conditions resulting in `deinduction' of the NO 3− transport system. Beyond 50 micromoles per gram [NO 3−], 13NO 3− influx was negatively correlated with root [NO 3−]. However, it is unclear whether root [NO 3−] per se or some product(s) of NO 3− assimilation are responsible for the negative feedback effects. 相似文献
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An experiment was conducted to determine the extent that NO 3− taken up in the dark was assimilated and utilized differently by plants than NO 3− taken up in the light. Vegetative, nonnodulated soybean plants ( Glycine max L. Merrill, `Ransom') were exposed to 15NO 3− throughout light (9 hours) or dark (15 hours) phases of the photoperiod and then returned to solutions containing 14NO 3−, with plants sampled subsequently at each light/dark transition over 3 days. The rates of 15NO 3− absorption were nearly equal in the light and dark (8.42 and 7.93 micromoles per hour, respectively); however, the whole-plant rate of 15NO 3− reduction during the dark uptake period (2.58 micromoles per hour) was 46% of that in the light (5.63 micromoles per hour). The lower rate of reduction in the dark was associated with both substantial retention of absorbed 15NO 3− in roots and decreased efficiency of reduction of 15NO 3− in the shoot. The rate of incorporation of 15N into the insoluble reduced-N fraction of roots in darkness (1.10 micromoles per hour) was somewhat greater than that in the light (0.92 micromoles per hour), despite the lower rate of whole-plant 15NO 3− reduction in darkness. A large portion of the 15NO3− retained in the root in darkness was translocated and incorporated into insoluble reduced-N in the shoot in the following light period, at a rate which was similar to the rate of whole-plant reduction of 15NO3− acquired during the light period. Taking into account reduction of NO3− from all endogenous pools, it was apparent that plant reduction in a given light period (~13.21 micromoles per hour) exceeded considerably the rate of acquisition of exogenous NO3− (8.42 micromoles per hour) during that period. The primary source of substrate for NO3− reduction in the dark was exogenous NO3− being concurrently absorbed. In general, these data support the view that a relatively small portion (<20%) of the whole-plant reduction of NO3− in the light occurred in the root system. 相似文献
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The nr 1 soybean ( Glycine max [L.] Merr.) mutant does not contain the two constitutive nitrate reductases, one of which is responsible for enzymic conversion of nitrite to NO x (NO + NO 2). It was tested for possible nonenzymic NO x formation and evolution because of known chemical reactions between NO 2− and plant metabolites and the instability of nitrous acid. It did not evolve NO x during the in vivo NR assay, but intact leaves did evolve small amounts of NO x under dark, anaerobic conditions. Experiments were conducted to compare NO 3− reduction, NO 2− accumulation, and the NO x evolution processes of the wild type (cv Williams) and the nr 1 mutant. In vivo NR assays showed that wild-type leaves had three times more NO 3− reducing capacity than the nr 1 mutant. NO x evolution from intact, anerobic nr 1 leaves was approximately 10 to 20% that from wild-type leaves. Nitrite content of the nr 1 mutant leaves was usually higher than wild type due to low NO x evolution. Lag times and threshold NO 2− concentrations for NO x evolution were similar for the two genotypes. While only 1 to 2% of NO x from wild type is NO 2, the nr 1 mutant evolved 15 to 30% NO 2. The kinetic patterns of NO x evolution with time weré completely different for the mutant and wild type. Comparisons of light and heat treatments also gave very different results. It is generally accepted that the NO x evolution by wild type is primarily an enzymic conversion of NO 2− to NO. However, this report concludes that NO x evolution by the nr 1 mutant was due to nonenzymic, chemical reactions between plant metabolites and accumulated NO 2− and/or decomposition of nitrous acid. Nonenzymic NO x evolution probably also occurs in wild type to a degree but could be easily masked by high rates of the enzymic process. 相似文献
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An experiment was conducted to investigate the relative changes in NO 3− assimilatory processes which occurred in response to decreasing carbohydrate availability. Young tobacco plants ( Nicotiana tabacum [L.], cv NC 2326) growing in solution culture were exposed to 1.0 millimolar 15NO 3− for 6 hour intervals during a normal 12 hour light period and a subsequent period of darkness lasting 42 hours. Uptake of 15NO 3− decreased to 71 to 83% of the uptake rate in the light during the initial 18 hours of darkness; uptake then decreased sharply over the next 12 hours of darkness to 11 to 17% of the light rate, coincident with depletion of tissue carbohydrate reserves and a marked decline in root respiration. Changes also occurred in endogenous 15NO 3− assimilation processes, which were distinctly different than those in 15NO 3− uptake. During the extended dark period, translocation of absorbed 15N out of the root to the shoot varied rhythmically. The adjustments were independent of 15NO 3− uptake rate and carbohydrate status, but were reciprocally related to rhythmic adjustments in stomatal resistance and, presumably, water movement through the root system. Whole plant reduction of 15NO 3− always was limited more than uptake. The assimilation of 15N into insoluble reduced-N in roots remained a constant proportion of uptake throughout, while assimilation in the shoot declined markedly in the first 18 hours of darkness before stabilizing at a low level. The plants clearly retained a capacity for 15NO 3− reduction and synthesis of insoluble reduced- 15N even when 15NO 3− uptake was severely restricted and minimal carbohydrate reserves remained in the tissue. 相似文献
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13NO 3− was used to investigate patterns of NO 3− influx into roots of barley plants ( Hordeum vulgare L. cv Klondike) previously grown with (`induced') or without (`uninduced') a source of external NO 3− ([NO 3−] 0). In both induced and uninduced plants, 13NO 3− influx was biphasic in the range from 0.005 to 50 moles per cubic meter [NO 3−] 0. In the low concentration range (<1 mole per cubic meter for induced plants and <0.3 mole per cubic meter for uninduced plants), influx was saturable and Vmax and Km values for influx either increased or decreased according to NO 3− pretreatment. By contrast, 13NO 3− influx in the high concentration range revealed a strictly linear concentration dependence. These fluxes appeared to be mediated by a constitutive, rather than an inducible, transport system. 相似文献
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Leaf area, chlorophyll content, net CO 2 photoassimilation, and the partitioning of fixed carbon between leaf sucrose and starch and soluble protein were examined in Glycine max (L) Merr. cv Williams grown under three different nitrogen regimes. One group (Nod+/+) was inoculated with Bradyrhizobium and watered daily with a nutrient solution containing 6 millimolar NH 4NO 3. A second set (Nod+/−) was inoculated and had N 2 fixation as its sole source of nitrogen. A third group (Nod −) was not inoculated and was watered daily with a nutrient solution containing 6 millimolar NH 4NO 3. The mean net micromole CO 2 uptake per square decimeter per hour of the most recently matured source leaves was similar among the three groups of plants, being about 310. Mean leaf area of the source leaves, monitored for net photosynthesis was also similar. However, the mean milligram of chlorophyll per square decimeter of Nod+/− test leaves was about 50% lower than the other groups' leaves and indicated nitrogen deficiency. Thus, Nod+/− utilized their chlorophyll more efficiently for photosynthetic CO 2 uptake than the plants of the other treatments. The ratio of foliar carbohydrate:protein content was high in Nod+/− but low in the plants from the other two treatments. This inverse relationship between foliar protein and carbohydrate content suggests that more fixed carbon is diverted to the synthesis of protein when nitrogen availability is high. It was also found that Nod+/− sequestered more storage protein in their paraveinal mesophyll than plants of the other treatments. This study indicates that when inorganic nitrogen regimes are used to control photosynthate partitioning, then both leaf carbohydrate and leaf protein must be considered as end products of carbon assimilate allocation. 相似文献
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Mass spectrometric analysis shows that assimilation of inorganic nitrogen (NH 4+, NO 2−, NO 3−) by N-limited cells of Selenastrum minutum (Naeg.) Collins results in a stimulation of tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) CO 2 release in both the light and dark. In a previous study we have shown that TCA cycle reductant generated during NH 4+ assimilation is oxidized via the cytochrome electron transport chain, resulting in an increase in respiratory O 2 consumption during photosynthesis (HG Weger, DG Birch, IR Elrifi, DH Turpin [1988] Plant Physiol 86: 688-692). NO 3− and NO 2− assimilation resulted in a larger stimulation of TCA cycle CO 2 release than did NH 4+, but a much smaller stimulation of mitochondrial O 2 consumption. NH 4+ assimilation was the same in the light and dark and insensitive to DCMU, but was 82% inhibited by anaerobiosis in both the light and dark. NO 3− and NO 2− assimilation rates were maximal in the light, but assimilation could proceed at substantial rates in the light in the presence of DCMU and in the dark. Unlike NH 4+, NO 3− and NO 2− assimilation were relatively insensitive to anaerobiosis. These results indicated that operation of the mitochondrial electron transport chain was not required to maintain TCA cycle activity during NO 3− and NO 2− assimilation, suggesting an alternative sink for TCA cycle generated reductant. Evaluation of changes in gross O 2 consumption during NO 3− and NO 2− assimilation suggest that TCA cycle reductant was exported to the chloroplast during photosynthesis and used to support NO 3− and NO 2− reduction. 相似文献
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When assayed in the presence of azide, NO 3− was shown to be a specific inhibitor of a proton-translocating ATPase present in corn ( Zea mays L. cv WF9 × M017) root microsomal membranes. The distribution of the NO 3−-sensitive ATPase on sucrose gradients and its general characteristics are similar to those previously reported for the anion-stimulated H +-ATPase of corn roots believed to be of tonoplast origin. An ATPase inhibited by 20 μ m vanadate and insensitive to molybdate was also identified in corn root microsomal membranes which could be largely separated from the NO 3−-sensitive ATPase on sucrose gradients and is believed to be of plasma membrane origin. Inasmuch as both ATPase most likely catalyze the efflux of H + from the cytoplasm, our objective was to characterize and compare the properties of both ATPases under identical experimental conditions. The vanadate-sensitive ATPase was stimulated by cations (K + > NH 4+ > Rb + > Cs + > Li + > Na + > choline +) whereas the NO 3−-sensitive ATPase was stimulated by anions (Cl − > Br − > C 2H 3O 2− > SO 42− > I − > HCO 3− > SCN −). Both ATPases required divalent cations. However, the order of preference for the NO 3−-sensitive ATPase (Mn 2+ > Mg 2+ > Co 2+ > Ca 2+ > Zn 2+) differed from that of the vanadate-sensitive ATPase (Co 2+ > Mg 2+ > Mn 2+ > Zn 2+ > Ca 2+). The vanadate-sensitive ATPase required higher concentrations of Mg:ATP for full activity than did the NO 3−-sensitive ATPase. The kinetics for Mg:ATP were complex for the vanadate-sensitive ATPase, indicating positive cooperativity, but were simple for the NO 3−-sensitive ATPase. Both ATPases exhibited similar temperature and pH optima (pH 6.5). The NO 3−-sensitive ATPase was stimulated by gramicidin and was associated with NO 3−-inhibitable H + transport measured as quenching of quinacrine fluorescence. It was insensitive to molybdate, azide, and vanadate, but exhibited slight sensitivity to ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl carbodiimide) and mersalyl. Overall, these results indicate several properties which distinguish these two ATPases and suggest that under defined conditions NO 3−-sensitive ATPase activity may be used as a quantitative marker for those membranes identified tentatively as tonoplast in mixed or nonpurified membrane fractions. We feel that NO 3− sensitivity is a better criterion by which to identify this ATPase than either Cl − stimulation or H + transport because it is less ambiguous. It is also useful in identifying the enzyme following solubilization. 相似文献
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The role of NO 3− and NO 2− in the induction of nitrite reductase (NiR) activity in detached leaves of 8-day-old barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) seedlings was investigated. Barley leaves contained 6 to 8 micromoles NO 2−/gram fresh weight × hour of endogenous NiR activity when grown in N-free solutions. Supply of both NO 2− and NO 3− induced the enzyme activity above the endogenous levels (5 and 10 times, respectively at 10 millimolar NO 2− and NO 3− over a 24 hour period). In NO 3−-supplied leaves, NiR induction occurred at an ambient NO 3− concentration of as low as 0.05 millimolar; however, no NiR induction was found in leaves supplied with NO 2− until the ambient NO 2− concentration was 0.5 millimolar. Nitrate accumulated in NO 2−-fed leaves. The amount of NO 3− accumulating in NO 2−-fed leaves induced similar levels of NiR as did equivalent amounts of NO 3− accumulating in NO 3−-fed leaves. Induction of NiR in NO 2−-fed leaves was not seen until NO 3− was detectable (30 nanomoles/gram fresh weight) in the leaves. The internal concentrations of NO 3−, irrespective of N source, were highly correlated with the levels of NiR induced. When the reduction of NO 3− to NO 2− was inhibited by WO 42−, the induction of NiR was inhibited only partially. The results indicate that in barley leaves NiR is induced by NO 3− directly, i.e. without being reduced to NO 2−, and that absorbed NO 2− induces the enzyme activity indirectly after being oxidized to NO 3− within the leaf. 相似文献
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It is unclear if the relative content of NO 3− and reduced N in xylem exudate provides an accurate estimate of the percentage reduction of concurrently absorbed NO 3− in the root. Experiments were conducted to determine whether NO 3− and reduced N in xylem exudate of vegetative, nonnodulated soybean plants ( Glycine max [L.] Merr., `Ransom') originated from exogenous recently absorbed 15NO 3− or from endogenous 14N pools. Plants either were decapitated and exposed to 15NO 3− solutions for 2 hours or were decapitated for the final 20 minutes of a 50-minute exposure to 15NO 3− in the dark and in the light. Considerable amounts of 14NO 3− and reduced 14N were transported into the xylem, but almost all of the 15N was present as 15NO 3−. Dissimilar changes in transport of 14NO 3−, reduced 14N and 15NO 3− during the 2 hours of sap collection resulted in large variability over time in the percentage of total N in the exudate which was reduced N. Over a 20-minute period the rate of 15N transport into the xylem of decapitated plants was only 21 to 36% of the 15N delivered to the shoot of intact plants. Based on the proportion of total 15N which was found as reduced 15N in exudate and in intact plants in the dark, it was estimated that 5 to 17% of concurrently absorbed 15NO 3− was reduced in the root. This was much less than the 38 to 59% which would have been predicted from the relative content of total NO 3− and total reduced N in the xylem exudate. 相似文献
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The comparative induction of nitrate reductase (NR) by ambient NO 3− and NO 2− as a function of influx, reduction (as NR was induced) and accumulation in detached leaves of 8-day-old barley ( Hordeum valgare L.) seedlings was determined. The dynamic interaction of NO 3− influx, reduction and accumulation on NR induction was shown. The activity of NR, as it was induced, influenced its further induction by affecting the internal concentration of NO 3−. As the ambient concentration of NO 3− increased, the relative influences imposed by influx and reduction on NO 3− accumulation changed with influx becoming a more predominant regulant. Significant levels of NO 3− accumulated in NO 2−-fed leaves. When the leaves were supplied cycloheximide or tungstate along with NO 2−, about 60% more NO 3− accumulated in the leaves than in the absence of the inhibitors. In NO 3−-supplied leaves NR induction was observed at an ambient concentration of as low as 0.02 m m. No NR induction occurred in leaves supplied with NO 2− until the ambient NO 2− concentration was 0.5 m m. In fact, NR induction from NO 2− solutions was not seen until NO 3− was detected in the leaves. The amount of NO 3− accumulating in NO 2−-fed leaves induced similar levels of NR as did equivalent amounts of NO 3− accumulating from NO 3−-fed leaves. In all cases the internal concentration of NO 3−, but not NO 2−, was highly correlated with the amount of NR induced. The evidence indicated that NO 3− was a more likely inducer of NR than was NO 2−. 相似文献
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Short-term (10 minutes) measurements of plasmalemma NO 3− influx ( oc) into roots of intact barley plants were obtained using 13NO 3−. In plants grown for 4 days at various NO 3− levels (0.1, 0.2, 0.5 millimolar), oc was found to be independent of the level of NO 3− pretreatment. Similarly, pretreatment with Cl − had no effect upon plasmalemma 13NO 3− influx. Plants grown in the complete absence of 13NO 3− (in CaSO 4 solutions) subsequently revealed influx values which were more than 50% lower than for plants grown in NO 3−. Based upon the documented effects of NO 3− or Cl − pretreatments on net uptake of NO 3−, these observations suggest that negative feedback from vacuolar NO 3− and/or Cl − acts at the tonoplast but not at the plasmalemma. When included in the influx medium, 0.5 millimolar Cl − was without effect upon 13NO 3− influx, but NH 4+ caused approximately 50% reduction of influx at this concentration. 相似文献
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The influence of NH 4+, in the external medium, on fluxes of NO 3− and K + were investigated using barley ( Hordeum vulgare cv Betzes) plants. NH 4+ was without effect on NO 3− ( 36ClO 3−) influx whereas inhibition of net uptake appeared to be a function of previous NO 3− provision. Plants grown at 10 micromolar NO 3− were sensitive to external NH 4+ when uptake was measured in 100 micromolar NO 3−. By contrast, NO 3− uptake (from 100 micromolar NO 3−) by plants previously grown at this concentration was not reduced by NH 4+ treatment. Plants pretreated for 2 days with 5 millimolar NO 3− showed net efflux of NO 3− when roots were transferred to 100 micromolar NO 3−. This efflux was stimulated in the presence of NH 4+. NH 4+ also stimulated NO 3− efflux from plants pretreated with relatively low nitrate concentrations. It is proposed that short term effects on net uptake of NO 3− occur via effects upon efflux. By contrast to the situation for NO 3−, net K + uptake and influx of 36Rb +-labeled K + was inhibited by NH 4+ regardless of the nutrient history of the plants. Inhibition of net K + uptake reached its maximum value within 2 minutes of NH 4+ addition. It is concluded that the latter ion exerts a direct effect upon K + influx. 相似文献
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