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When grown in a nutrient solution containing combined nitrogen(NH4NO3), Lotus pedunculatus and L. tenuis seedlings inoculatedwith a fast-growing strain of Rhizoblum (NZP2037) did neitherdevelop root nodules nor develop flavolans in their roots. Incontrast, the roots of nodulated seedlings growing in a nitrogen-freenutrient solution contained flavolans. Flavolan synthesis coincidedwith root nodule development on these plants. When added as a single dose, high concentrations of NH4NO3 (5and 10 mg N per plant) stimulated the growth of L. pedunculatusplants but suppressed nodulation and nitrogen fixation. In contrastthe continued supply of a low concentration of NH4NO3 (1?0 mgN d1 per plant) stimulated nitrogen fixation by up to500%. This large increase in nitrogen fixation was associatedwith a large increase in nodule fresh weight per plant, a doublingof nodule nitrogenase activity, and a lowering of the flavolancontent of the plant roots. The close relationship between nitrogendeficiency, nodule development, and flavolan synthesis in L.pedunculatus meant that it was not possible (by nitrogen pretreatmentof plants) to alter the ineffective nodule response of a Rhizobiumstrain (NZP2213) sensitive to the flavolan present in the rootsof this plant. 相似文献
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The morphology of root nodules formed on Lotus pedunculatusby two fast-growing strains of Rhizobium, NZP2037 which formseffective (nitrogen-fixing) nodules and NZP2213 which formsineffective (non-nitrogen-fixing) nodules, has been studied.The nodules formed by NZP2037 contained a central zone of bacteroid-filledplant cells surrounded by a cortex. In contrast the nodulesformed by NZP2213 contained no Rhizoblum-infected plant cells,but rhizobia were found in localized areas on the nodule surfaceand between the outer two or three cell layers of the nodule.Electron-dense osmiophilic deposits identified as flavolans(condensed tannins) were present in the vacuoles of many uninfectedplant cells in the nodules formed by both Rhizobium strains.This is the first time that flavolans have been positively identifiedin legume root nodules. In the NZP2037 nodule flavolans werepresent in the outer cortical and epidermal cells. In the ineffecitveNZP2213 nodule fiavolans were present in many of the centralnodule cells. The concentration of flavolan in the NZP2213 nodulewas 12 times higher than in the NZP2037 nodule. 相似文献
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Effect of Salinity on Growth, Nodulation and Nitrogen Yield of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Chickpea cultivar ILC 482 was inoculated with salt-tolerantRhizobium strain Ch191 in solution culture with different saltconcentrations added either immediately with inoculation or5 d later. The inhibitory effect of salinity on nodulation ofchickpea occurred at 40 dS m1 (34.2 mol m3 NaCl)and nodulation was completely inhibited at 7 dS m1 (61.6mol m3 NaCl); the plants died at 8 dS m1 (71.8mol m3 NaCl). Chickpea cultivar ILC 482 inoculated with Rhizobium strain Ch191spcstrwas grown in two pot experiments and irrigated with saline water.Salinity (NaCl equivalent to 14 dS m1) significantlydecreased shoot and root dry weight, total nodule number perplant, nodule weight and average nodule weight. The resultsindicate that Rhizobium strain Ch191 forms an infective andeffective symbiosis with chickpea under saline and non-salineconditions; this legume was more salt-sensitive compared tothe rhizobia, the roots were more sensitive than the shoots,and N2 fixation was more sensitive to salinity than plant growth. Key words: Cicer arietinum, nodulation, N2 fixation, Rhizobium, salinity 相似文献
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Transfer of an indigenous plasmid of Rhizobium loti to other rhizobia and Agrobacterium tumefaciens 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Rhizobium loti strains NZP2037 and NZP2213 were each found to contain a single large plasmid: pRlo2037a (240 MDal) and pRlo2213a (120 MDal), respectively. Plasmid DNA present in crude cell lysates of each strain and purified pRlo2037a DNA did not hybridize with pID1, a recombinant plasmid containing part of the nitrogen fixation (nif) region of R. meliloti, indicating that nif genes were not present on these plasmids. The transposon Tn5 was inserted into pRlo2037a and this plasmid was then transferred into R. leguminosarum, R. meliloti and Agrobacterium tumefaciens. All transconjugants failed to nodulate Lotus pedunculatus, suggesting that the ability to nodulate this legume was also not carried on pRlo2037a. Transfer of pRlo2037a to R. loti strain NZP2213 did not alter the Nod+ Fix- phenotype of this strain for L. pedunculatus. Determinants for flavolan resistance, believed to be necessary for effective nodulation of L. pedunculatus, were not carried on pRlo2037a. These data suggest that nodulation, nitrogen fixation and flavolan resistance genes are not present on the large plasmid in R. loti strain NZP2037. 相似文献
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Cultivated Agave mapisaga and A. salmiana can have an extremelyhigh above-ground dry-weight productivity of 40 Mg ha1yr1. To help understand the below-ground capabilitiesthat support the high above-ground productivity of these Crassulaceanacid metabolism plants, roots were studied in the laboratoryand in plantations near Mexico City. For approximately 15-year-oldplants, the lateral spread of roots from the plant base averaged1.3 m and the maximal root depth was 0.8 m, both considerablygreater than for desert succulents of the same age. Root andshoot growth occurred all year, although the increase in shootgrowth at the beginning of the wet season preceded the increasein growth of main roots. New lateral roots branching from themain roots were more common at the beginning of the wet season,which favoured water uptake with a minimal biomass investment,whereas growth of new main roots occurred later in the growingseason. The root: shoot dry weight ratio was extremely low,less than 0.07 for 6-year-old plants of both species, and decreasedwith plant age. The elongation rates of main roots and lateralroots were 10 to 17 mm d1, higher than for various desertsucculents but similar to elongation rates for roots of highlyproductive C3 and C4 agronomic species. The respiration rateof attached main roots was 32 µmol CO2 evolved kg1dry weight s1 at 4 weeks of age, that of lateral rootswas about 70% higher, and both rates decreased with root age.Such respiration rates are 4- to 5-fold higher than for Agavedeserti, but similar to rates for C3 and C4 agronomic species.The root hydraulic conductivity had a maximal value of 3 x 107ms1 MPa1 at 4 weeks of age, similar to A. deserti.The radial hydraulic conductivity from the root surface to thexylem decreased and the axial conductivity along the xylem increasedwith root age, again similar to A. deserti. Thus, although rootsof A. mapisaga and A. salmiana had hydraulic properties perunit length similar to those of a desert agave, their highergrowth rates, their higher respiration rates, and the greatersoil volume explored by their roots than for various desertsucculents apparently helped support their high above-groundbiomass productivity Key words: Crassulacean acid metabolism, productivity, root elongation rate, root system, water uptake 相似文献
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The non-protein amino acid 2, 3-diaminobutanoic acid has been identified in the root nodules of Lotus tenuis inoculated with Rhizobium strain NZP2213. The co-occurrence of this compound in two diastereoisomeric forms was established by comparative GC retention time measurements on a Chirasil—Val capillary column. 相似文献
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Inoculation with Azospirillum lipoferum Affects Growth and Gibberellin Status of Corn Seedling Roots
Maize (Zea mays L., hybrid Cargill 147) seedlings, grown inaseptic conditions, were inoculated with three strains of Azospirillumlipoferum (Al op 33, Al iaa 320, and ATCC 29708) or culturedin different concentrations of indol-3-acetic acid (IAA) orgibberellin A3 (GA3). After 48 h, root length, root surfacearea, root dry weight, and shoot dry weight were measured inall treatments. Gibberellin content was evaluated in selectedroots of control and Azospirillum inoculated seedlings by gaschromatography-mass spectrometry-selected ion monitoring withthe use of deuterated gibberellins as internal standards. Thethree strains of A. lipoferum, IAA (2 ng ml1), and GA3(40 to 400 pg ml1) significantly enhanced root growth.Improvement of root hair growth and density was obtained mainlywith A. lipoferum strain Al op 33 and GA3 40 pg ml1.GA3 was identified by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (byboth, full scan and selected ion monitoring) in a free acidfraction from roots of the seedlings inoculated with A. lipoferum.In the roots of the non inoculated seedlings GA3 was found afterhydrolysis of a fraction expected to contain glucosyl conjugates. (Received April 26, 1993; Accepted September 27, 1993) 相似文献
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KOUCHI HIROSHI; NAKAJI KIYOKAZU; YONEYAMA TADAKATSU; ISHIZUKA JUNJI 《Annals of botany》1985,56(3):333-346
Well-nodulated soya bean (Glycine max L.) plants were allowedto assimilate 13CO2 for 10 h in the light, under steady-stateconditions in which CO2 concentration and 13C abundance wereboth strictly controlled at constant levels. The respiratoryevolution of 13CO2 from roots and nodules and 13C incorporationinto various metabolic fractions were measured during the 13CO2feeding and subsequent 48 h chase period. CO2 respired from nodules was much more rapidly labelled with13C than that from roots. The level of labelling (percentageof carbon currently assimilated during the 13COM2 feeding period)of CO2 respired from nodules reached a maximum of about 87 percent after 4 h of steady-state l3CO2 assimilation and thereafterremained fairly constant. The absolute amount of labelled carbonevolved by the respiration of the nodules during the 10 h 13CO2feeding period was 1·5-fold that of root respiration.These results demonstrated that the currently assimilated (labelled)carbon was preferentially used to support nodule respiration,while root respiration relied considerably on earlier (non-labelled)carbon reserved in the roots. Sucrose pools were mostly composed of currently assimilatedcarbon in all tissues of the plants, since the levels of labellingaccounted for 8691 per cent at the end of the 13CO2 feeding.In the nodules, the kinetics and levels of sucrose labellingwere in fairly good agreement with those of respired CO2, whilein the roots, the level of labelling of respired CO2 was significantlylower than that of sucrose. Succinate and malate were highly labelled in both roots andnodules but they were labelled much more slowly than sucroseand respired CO2. The kinetics and levels of labelling of theseKrebs cycle intermediates resembled those of major amino acidswhich are derived directly from Krebs cycle intermediates. Itis suggested that large fractions of organic acids in noduleswere physically separate from the respiration site. Glycine max L., Soya bean, 13CO2 assimilation, respiratory evolution of 13CO2, carbon metabolism in root nodules 相似文献
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ITO OSAMU; OKANO KUNIO; KUROIWA MIYOKO; TOTSUKA TSUMUGU 《Journal of experimental botany》1985,36(4):652-662
Ten-day old kidney bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. Shin-edogawa)were exposed to 2.0 and 40 parts 106 NO2, and0.1, 0.2, and 0.4 parts 106 O3 alone or in combinationfor 2, 4, and 7 d. The effects of these air pollutants wereexamined with respect to the growth, partitioning of assimilates,nitrogen uptake, soluble sugar content, and root respiration. Decreased dry matter production was significant with all treatmentsexcept 2.0 parts 106 NO2 and 0.1 parts 106 O3.Exposure to mixtures of the gases produced more severe suppressionof growth than exposure to the single gases. Root/shoot ratiowas significantly lowered at 7 d by the gas treatments otherthan 2.0 parts 106 NO2 and 0.1 parts 106 O3. Thetotal nitrogen content of plants was increased by all treatments;the higher percent of nitrogen found with O3 exposure will resultfrom the growth retardation which increases the concentrationof nitrogen in the plants because the absorption of nitrogenby roots was unaffected. The combination of O3 with NO2 significantlydecreased the assimilation of NO2 by the plants. The concentration of soluble sugars in roots was decreased bythe gas treatments. There was a strong positive correlationbetween soluble sugar content and dry weight of the roots harvestedat 7 d. Root respiration was relatively unchanged until 5 dand then decreased significantly at 7 d by 2.0 parts 106NO2 and 02 parts 106 O3. Retarded growth of theroots and the decreased root respiration may be due to diminishedtranslocation of sugars from leaves to roots caused by exposureto air pollutants. The uptake of soil nitrogen was not closelyrelated with root respiration in the case of O3 exposure. Key words: NO2, O3, Phaseolus vulgaris, Growth, Sugars, Root respiration 相似文献
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Effects of a Range of O2 Concentrations on Porosity of Barley Roots and on their Sugar and Protein Concentrations 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Barley was grown at a range of oxygen concentrations (0.59mg l1), in nutrient solutions. Growth of both shootsand seminal roots was restricted by O2 concentrations lowerthan 23 mg l1) but nodal root growth was not. Root porosities were increased even at those O2 concentrationswhich did not restrict growth, and were inversely proportionalto the protein levels of the roots. Sugar concentrations increasedappreciably only at those O2 concentrations which also restrictedgrowth. Hordeum vulgare L., barley, root porosity, sugar, protein, oxygen concentration 相似文献
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Respiratory oxygen consumption by roots was 1·4- and1·6-fold larger in NH+4-fed than in NO-3-fed wheat (Triticumaestivum L.) and maize (Zea mays L.) plants respectively. Higherroot oxygen consumption in NH+4-fed plants than in NO-3-fedplants was associated with higher total nitrogen contents inNH+4-fed plants. Root oxygen consumption was, however, not correlatedwith growth rates or shoot:root ratios. Carbon dioxide releasewas 1·4- and 1·2-fold larger in NO+3-fed thanin NH+4-fed wheat and maize plants respectively. Differencesin oxygen and carbon dioxide gas exchange rates resulted inthe gas exchange quotients of NH-4-fed plants (wheat, 0·5;maize, 0·6) being greatly reduced compared with thoseof NO-3-fed plants (wheat, 1·0; maize, 1·1). Measuredrates of HCO-3 assimilation by PEPc in roots were considerablylarger in 4 mM NH+4-fed than in 4 NO-3 plants (wheat, 2·6-fold;maize, 8·3-fold). These differences were, however, insufficientto account for the observed differences in root carbon dioxideflux and it is probable that HCO-3 uptake is also importantin determining carbon dioxide fluxes. Thus reduced root extension in NH+4-fed compared with NO-3-fedwheat plants could not be ascribed to differences in carbondioxide losses from roots.Copyright 1993, 1999 Academic Press Triticum aestivum, wheat, Zea mays, maize assimilation, ammonium assimilation, root respiration 相似文献
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Infection threads were observed abundantly in the root hairsof Lotus corniculatus L., but very rarely in L. hispidus, Desf.,in response to infection by Rhizobium strains 3001 and 3002.Numbers of infections differed between species and strains andwere also affected by temperature. In L. corniculatus all thenodules originated from infection threads, but in L. hispidusmost nodules appeared to originate by direct bacterial penetrationthrough the epidermis, and infected root hairs were very rarelyseen. Both species of Lotus were tolerant to cold temperatures,the minimum temperature for nodulation being 10 ?C. The optimumtemperature for nodulation of L. corniculatus was 20 ?C with3001 and between 27 and 30 ?C with 3002, a few nodules beingformed with both strains at 35 ?C. L. hispidus formed more nodulesthan L. corniculatus and the optimum temperature for both thestrains was between 25 and 27 ?C. No infection threads were seen in root hairs or nodules of Stylosanthesguyanensis (Aubl.) S. W. and S. humilis H.B.K. infected withRhizobium strain CB1552, and all the nodules were formed inthe axils of lateral roots. Optimum temperature for nodulationin S. guyanensis and S. humilis was around 27 ?C; nodulationwas completely inhibited at 15 ?C and very few nodules wereformed at 35 ?C. Both in Lotus and Stylosanthes the transfer of plants from suboptimalto optimal and supraoptimal temperatures increased nodulation.Delayed inoculation and excision of root tips increased nodulation. 相似文献
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Lamaze, T., Sentenac, H. and Grignon, C. 1987. Orthophosphaterelations of root: NO3effects on orthophosphate influx,accumulation and secretion into the xylem.J. exp. Bot.38: 923934. Orthophosphate (Pi) accumulation by barley (Hordeum vulgareL.) roots was specifically inhibited by NO3 as comparedto Cl and SO42 , and Pi secretion into the xylemwas stimulated. The inhibition of Pi accumulation by NO3was also observed in roots of intact photosynthesizing horsebean(Vicia faba L.), rice (Oryza sativa L.) and soybean (Glycinemax L.) plants. NO3 effects on Pi transport by rootswere more thoroughly investigated with corn (Zea mays L.). Theywere due to intracellular NO3. Pi secretion was stillstimulated by NO3 after Pi withdrawal from the absorptionsolution. 32Pi influx decreased during Pi accumulation, supportingthe hypothesis that this ion allosterically regulated its owntransport system by feedback control. This control was modulatedby other anions: the decrease was more pronounced in the presenceof nitrate. Chronologically, the depressive effect of NO3on 32Pi influx appeared after the inhibition of Pi accumulation.Furthermore, under conditions where Pi accumulation was notaffected by NO3, 32Pi influx and Pi secretion into thexylem became insensitive to the presence of nitrate. Our hypothesisis that the stimulative effect of NO3 on Pi secretionand the depressive one on 32Pi influx are the repercussionsof an increase in the Pi cytosolic concentration due to an NO3-induced decrease in Pi uptake by the vacuoles. Key words: Root, orthophosphate fluxes, orthophosphate accumulation, nitrate, ionic interaction 相似文献
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The specific respiration rates of nodulated root systems, ofnodules and of roots were determined during active nitrogenfixation in soya bean, navy bean, pea, lucerne, red clover andwhite clover, by measurements on whole plants before and afterthe removal of nodule populations. Similar measurements weremade on comparable populations of the six legumes, lacking nodulesbut receiving abundant nitrate-nitrogen, to determine the specificrespiration of their roots. All plants were grown in a controlled-environmentclimate which fostered rapid growth. The specific respiration rates of nodulated root systems ofthe three grain and three forage legumes during a 714-dayperiod of vegetative growth varied between 10 and 17 mg CO2g1 (dry weight) h1. This mean value consistedof two components: a specific root respiration rate of 69mg CO2 g1 h1 and a specific nodule respirationrate of 2246 mg CO2 g1 h1. Nodule respirationaccounted for 4270 per cent of nodulated root respiration;nodule weight accounted for 1240 per cent of nodulatedroot weight. The specific respiration rates of roots lackingnodules and utilizing nitrate nitrogen were generally 2030per cent greater than the equivalent rates of roots from nodulatedplants. The measured respiratory effluxes are discussed in thecontext of nitrogen nitrogen fixation, nitrate assimilation. Glycine max, Phaseolus vulgaris, Pisum sativum, Medicago sativa, Trifolium pratense, Trifolium repens, soya bean, navy bean, pea, lucerne, red clover, white clover, nodule respiration, root respiration, fixation, nitrate assimilation 相似文献
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MATTSSON M.; LUNDBORG T.; LARSSON M.; LARSSON C.-M. 《Journal of experimental botany》1992,43(1):25-30
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L., cvs Golf, Mette, and Laevigatum)was grown under nitrogen limitation in solution culture untilnear maturity. Three different nitrogen addition regimes wereused: in the HN culture the relative rate of nitrate-Naddition (RA) was 0·08 d1 until day 48 and thendecreased stepwise to, finally, 0·005 d1 duringgrain-filling; the LN culture received 45% ofthe nitrogen added in HN; the CN culture was maintainedat RA 0·0375 d1 throughout. Kinetics of net nitrateuptake were measured during ontogeny at 30 to 150 mmol m3external nitrate. Vmax (which is argued to reflect the maximuminflux rate in these plants) declined with age in both HN andLN cultures. A pronounced transient drop was observed just beforeanthesis, which correlated in time with a peak in root nitrateconcentration. Similar, but less pronounced, trends were observedin CN. The relative Vmax (unit nitrogen taken up per unit nitrogenin plants and day) in all three cultures declined from 1·32·3d1 during vegetative growth to 0·10·7d1 during generative growth. These values are in HN andLN cultures 15- to more than 100-fold in excess of the demandset by growth rates throughout ontogeny. Predicted balancingnitrate concentrations (defined as the nitrate concentrationrequired to support the observed rate of growth) were below6·0 mmol m3 in HN and LN cultures before anthesisand then decreased during ontogeny. In CN cultures the balancingnitrate concentration increased during grain-filling. Apartfrom the transient decline during anthesis, most of the effectof ageing on relative Vmax can be explained in terms of reducedcontribution of roots to total biomass (R:T). The loss in uptakeper unit root weight is largely compensated for by the declinewith time in average tissue nitrogen concentrations. The quantitativerelationships between relative Vmax and R:T in ageing plantsare similar to those observed for vegetative plants culturedat different RAs. The data support the contention that the capacity for nitrateacquisition in N-limited plants is under general growth control,rather than controlled by specific regulation of the biochemicalpathway of nitrate assimilation. Key words: Barley, nitrogen concentration, root: total plant biomass ratio, Vmax 相似文献
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Cramer M.D.; Schierholt A.; Wang Y.Z.; Lips S.H. 《Journal of experimental botany》1995,46(10):1569-1577
In hydroponically grown Lycopersicon esculentum (L.) Mill. cv.F144 the site of NO3 reduction and assimilation withinthe plant was shifted from the shoot to the root by salinity.Uptake of NO3 from the root solution was strongly inhibitedby salinization. Consequently, NO3 concentrations inthe leaf, stem and root tissues as well as the nitrate reductaseactivities of the leaves were lower in salinized than in controlplants. Lower NO3, but higher reduced-N, concentrationswere observed in the xylem sap as a result of the enhanced participationof the root in NO3 reduction in salinized plants. Lowerstem K+ concentrations and leaf malate concentrations were foundin salinized compared to control plants which indicates reducedfunctioning of the K+shuttle in the salinized plants. Incorporation of inorganic carbon by the root was determinedby supplying a pulse of NaH14CO3 followed by extraction andseparation of the labelled products on ion exchange resins.The rate of H14CO3 incorporation was c. 2-fold higherin control than in salinized plants. In salinized plants theproducts of H14CO3 incorporation within the roots werediverted into amino acids, while the control plants divertedrelatively more 14C into organic acids. Products of inorganiccarbon incorporation in the roots of salinized plants providean anaplerotic source of carbon for assimilation of reducedNO3 into amino acids, while in control plants the productswere predominantly organic acids as part of mechanisms to maintainionic balance in the cells and in the xylem sap. Key words: Tomato, nitrate, PEPc, respiration, salinity 相似文献
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Root Hydraulic Conductivity of Two Cactus Species in Relation to Root Age, Temperature, and Soil Water Status 总被引:6,自引:1,他引:5
The effects of root age, temperature, and soil water statuson root hydraulic conductivity (LP) were investigated for twocactus species, Ferocactus acanthodes and Opuntia ficus-indica.The volumetric flux density of water was measured for excisedroot segments, either using negative hydrostatic pressures appliedto the proximal end or using reverse flow of water from theroot to the soil. For both species, LP at 20 ?C increased withroot age, average values reaching a maximum of 3.9 ? 107m s1 MPa1 for F. acanthodes and 5.2 ? 107m s1 MPa1 for O.ficus-indica at 11 to 17 weeksof age; LP subsequently declined with increasing root age forboth species. LP was maximal at a temperature of about 10 ?Cfor the youngest roots (13 weeks), this optimum shiftingto 40 ?C for 8-week-old roots of both species. For older roots(up to 1.5-years-old), LP increased with temperature from 0?C to 50 ?C, with a Q10 of 1.3 between 20 ?C and 30 ?C. At asoil water potential (soil) of 0.016 MPa, root LP wasindependent of the direction of water flow for both species.Depending on root age, LP declined 45- to 500-fold for F. acanthodesand 90- to 800-fold for O.ficus-indica as soil was reduced from0.016 to 1.06 MPa, consistent with a rectifier-likebehaviour with respect to water movement between soil and roots.Incorporation of such responses into water uptake models shouldlead to a better understanding of root function. Key words: Ferocactus acanthodes, Opuntia ficus-indica, water potential, tension, reverse flow 相似文献
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Salt Stress Causes Acceleration of Purine Catabolism and Inhibition of Pyrimidine Salvage in Zea mays Root Tips 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
PETERSON TODD A.; LOVATT CAROL J.; NIEMAN RICHARD H. 《Journal of experimental botany》1988,39(10):1389-1395
Nucleotide metabolism was studied in apical 5.0 mm root tipsof corn plants (Zea mays L., cv. Pioneer 3906) hydroponicallycultured for 7 d and then salinized for 19 d at a rate calculatedto reduce the osmotic potential (o) of the solutions by O.1MPad1 to a final o = -0.4 MPa. Saline treatments withtwo different molar ratios of Ca2+/Na+ were employed, viz.,003 (2.5 mol m3 CaCl2 + 86.5 mol m3 NaCl)for the NaCl treatment and 0.73 (31.5 mol m3 CaCl2 +43.1 mol m3 NaCl) for the NaCl + CaCl2 treatment. Bothsalt treatments reduced root growth by more than 30%. The capacityof roots to provide purine nucleotides either by de novo synthesisor by re-utilization of existing bases, e.g. salvage of hypoxanthineto adenine nucleotides, was not affected by either salt treatment.However, catabolism of hypoxanthine was accelerated more than3.5-fold by both salt treatments, demonstrating an increasedcapacity for purine catabolism which would shift the normal1: 1 ratio of synthesis: degradation of purine nucleotides observedfor the roots of healthy control plants to less than 0.2 duringsalt stress. The ratio of pyrimidine nucleotide synthesis: degradationwas also reduced. In this case, the unfavourable shift towardnucleotide degradation resulted because both salt treatmentsreduced salvage capacity by more than 25%, but had no compensatingeffect on de novo synthesis or catabolism of pyrimidines. Key words: Salinity, osmotic potential, nucleotide metabolism 相似文献
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Nodulated white clover plants (Trifolium repens L. cv. Huia)were grown as simulated swards for 71 d in flowing nutrientsolutions with roots at 11 C and shoots at 20/15 C, day/night,under natural illumination. Root temperatures were then changedto 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17 or 25 C and the total N2, fixation over21 d was measured in the absence of a supply mineral N. Alltreatments were subsequently supplied with 10 mmol m2NO2 in the flowing solutions for 14 d, and the relativeuptake of N by N2, fixation and NO3 uptake was compared.Net uptake of K+ was measured on a daily basis. Root temperature had little effect on root d. wt over the 35-dexperimental period, but shoot d. wt increased by a factor of3.5 between 3 and 25 C, with the sharpest increase occurringat 711 C. Shoot: root d. wt ratios increased from 25to 68 with increasing temperature at 725 C. N2-fixationper plant (in the absence of NO2 ) increased with roottemperature at 313C, but showed little change above13 C. The ratios of N2 fixation: NO2 uptake over 14d (mol N: mol N) were 0.470.77 at 37 C, 092154at 1117 C, and 046 at 25 C, reflecting the dominanceof NO3 uptake over N2 fixation at extremes of high andlow root temperature. The total uptake of N varied only slightlyat 1125 C (095110 mmol N plant1),the decline in N2 fixation as root temperature increased above11 C was compensated for by the increase in NO 3 uptake.The % N in shoot dry matter declined with decreasing root temperature,from 32% at 13 C to 15% at 3 C. In contrast, concentrationsof N expressed on a shoot water content basis showed a modestdecrease with increasing temperature, from 345 mol m3at 3 C to 290 mol m3 at 25 C. Trifolium repens L, white clover, root temperature, N2 fixation, potassium uptake, nitrate uptake, flowing solution culture 相似文献
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Genetic Diversity and Host Range of Rhizobia Nodulating Lotus tenuis in Typical Soils of the Salado River Basin (Argentina)
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María Julia Estrella Socorro Muoz María Jos Soto Oscar Ruiz Juan Sanjun 《Applied microbiology》2009,75(4):1088-1098
A total of 103 root nodule isolates were used to estimate the diversity of bacteria nodulating Lotus tenuis in typical soils of the Salado River Basin. A high level of genetic diversity was revealed by repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR, and 77 isolates with unique genomic fingerprints were further differentiated into two clusters, clusters A and B, after 16S rRNA restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Cluster A strains appeared to be related to the genus Mesorhizobium, whereas cluster B was related to the genus Rhizobium. 16S rRNA sequence and phylogenetic analysis further supported the distribution of most of the symbiotic isolates in either Rhizobium or Mesorhizobium: the only exception was isolate BA135, whose 16S rRNA gene was closely related to the 16S rRNA gene of the genus Aminobacter. Most Mesorhizobium-like isolates were closely related to Mesorhizobium amorphae, Mesorhizobium mediterraneum, Mesorhizobium tianshanense, or the broad-host-range strain NZP2037, but surprisingly few isolates grouped with Mesorhizobium loti type strain NZP2213. Rhizobium-like strains were related to Rhizobium gallicum, Rhizobium etli, or Rhizobium tropici, for which Phaseolus vulgaris is a common host. However, no nodC or nifH genes could be amplified from the L. tenuis isolates, suggesting that they have rather divergent symbiosis genes. In contrast, nodC genes from the Mesorhizobium and Aminobacter strains were closely related to nodC genes from narrow-host-range M. loti strains. Likewise, nifH gene sequences were very highly conserved among the Argentinian isolates and reference Lotus rhizobia. The high levels of conservation of the nodC and nifH genes suggest that there was a common origin of the symbiosis genes in narrow-host-range Lotus symbionts, supporting the hypothesis that both intrageneric horizontal gene transfer and intergeneric horizontal gene transfer are important mechanisms for the spread of symbiotic capacity in the Salado River Basin. 相似文献