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Nitrate Inhibition of Legume Nodule Growth and Activity : II. Short Term Studies with High Nitrate Supply 总被引:4,自引:2,他引:2
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Streeter JG 《Plant physiology》1985,77(2):325-328
Soybean plants (Glycine max [L.] Merr) were grown in sand culture with 2 millimolar nitrate for 37 days and then supplied with 15 millimolar nitrate for 7 days. Control plants received 2 millimolar nitrate and 13 millimolar chloride and, after the 7-day treatment period, all plants were supplied with nil nitrate. The temporary treatment with high nitrate inhibited nitrogenase (acetylene reduction) activity by 80% whether or not Rhizobium japonicum bacteroids had nitrate reductase (NR) activity. The pattern of nitrite accumulation in nodules formed by NR+ rhizobia was inversely related to the decrease and recovery of nitrogenase activity. However, nitrite concentration in nodules formed by NR− rhizobia appeared to be too low to explain the inhibition of nitrogenase. Carbohydrate composition was similar in control nodules and nodules receiving 15 millimolar nitrate suggesting that the inhibition of nitrogenase by nitrate was not related to the availability of carbohydrate.
Nodules on plants treated with 15 millimolar nitrate contained higher concentrations of amino N and, especially, ureide N than control nodules and, after withdrawal of nitrate, reduced N content of treated and control nodules returned to similar levels. The accumulation of N2 fixation products in nodules in response to high nitrate treatment was observed with three R. japonicum strains, two NR+ and one NR−. The high nitrate treatment did not affect the allantoate/allantoin ratio or the proportion of amino N or ureide N in bacteroids (4%) and cytosol (96%).
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Silsbury JH 《Plant physiology》1987,84(3):950-953
An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that, when nitrogenase and nitrate reductase both contribute to the nitrogen nutrition of a nodulated legume, nitrogenase activity is inversely proportional to the rate of accumulation of organic nitrogen derived from the reduction of nitrate. Trifolium subterraneum L. plants, inoculated with Rhizobium trifolii and sown as small swards, were allowed to establish a closed canopy and steady rates of growth, dinitrogen fixation, and nitrogen accumulation. Swards were then supplied with nutrient solutions of 0, 0.5, 1.0, or 2.5 mm NO3− with a 29.69% enrichment of 15N and allowed to grow for a further 33 days. Harvests were made to measure dry weight, nitrogen accumulation, 15N accumulation, NO3− content and nitrogenase activity by acetylene reduction assay. Since the 15N of the plant organic matter could have been derived only from the NO3− of the nutrient solution, its rate of accumulation provided a measure of the rate of NO3− reduction. It was found that as this rate increased in response to external NO3− concentration the rate of nitrogenase activity decreased proportionately. It is concluded that the reduction of nitrate and the reduction of dinitrogen act in a complementary manner to supply a plant with organic nitrogen for growth. 相似文献
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Studies of the variation in δ15N values for plants from a fire-prone Banksia woodland in South West Australia showed that pioneer herbaceous, non-mycorrhizal species which were active in nitrate reduction and storage, had the highest values (1.81%c). A detailed study of one such species Ptilotus polystachus demonstrated a close correspondence between the δ15N values of soil nitrate, xylem nitrate and leaf total nitrogen, suggesting an exclusive reliance on nitrate ions as nitrogen source. These pioneer species also showed a preponderance of the chloroplastic isoform of glutamine synthetase while woody species generally had higher activity associated with the cytosolic isoform. The group comprising monocotyledonous hemicryptophytes and geophytes contained species with slightly positive δ15N values and moderately active in nitrate reduction and storage. Nitrogen-fixing species had the lowest δ15N values (–0.36‰), irrespective of their apparent utilisation of nitrate. However, woody resprouter species which had low levels of nitrate reduction and storage had δ15N values which fell within the range of values obtained for the miscellaneous assemblage of N2-fixing species. Consequently, 15N abundance values failed to distinguish N2 fixing from non-fixing woody species, and therefore, could not be used in the ecosystem to determine the dependence of putative nitrogen fixing species on N2 fixation. The study demonstrated complex patterns of nitrogen utilization in the ecosystem in which exploitation of different nitrogen resources related to plant life form and the physiological attributes of nitrogen assimilation by component species. 相似文献
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Biological Nitrogen Fixation is not a Major Contributor to the Nitrogen Demand of a Commercially Grown South African Sugarcane Cultivar 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
It has previously been reported that endophytic diazotrophic bacteria contribute significantly to the nitrogen budgets of
some graminaceous species. In this study the contribution of biological nitrogen fixation to the N-budget of a South African
sugarcane cultivar was evaluated using 15N natural abundance, acetylene reduction and 15N incorporation. Plants were also screened for the presence of endophytic diazotrophic bacteria using acetylene reduction
and nifH-gene targeted PCR with the pure bacterial strains. 15N natural abundance studies on field-grown sugarcane indicated that the plants did not rely extensively on biological nitrogen
fixation. Furthermore, no evidence was found for significant N2-fixation or nitrogenase activity in field-grown or glasshouse-grown plants using 15N incorporation measurements and acetylene reduction assays. Seven endophytic bacterial strains were isolated from glasshouse-grown
and field-grown plants and cultured on N-free medium. The diazotrophic character of these seven strains could not be confirmed
using acetylene reduction and PCR screening for nifH. Thus, although biological nitrogen fixation may occur in South African sugarcane varieties, the contribution of this N-source
in the tested cultivar was not significant. 相似文献
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Assimilation of Inorganic Nitrogen by Marine Invertebrates and Their Chemoautotrophic and Methanotrophic Symbionts 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
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Symbioses between marine invertebrates and their chemoautotrophic and methanotrophic symbionts are now known to exist in a variety of habitats where reduced chemical species are present. The utilization of chemical energy and reliance on C1 compounds by these symbioses are well documented. Much less is known about their metabolism of nitrogen. Earlier work has shown that the tissues of organisms in these associations are depleted of 15N compared with those of other marine organisms, indicating that local sources of nitrogen are assimilated and that novel mechanisms of nitrogen metabolism may be involved. Although these symbioses have access to rich sources of ammonium (NH4+ and NH3) and/or nitrate, several investigators have proposed that N2 fixation may account for some of these isotope values. Here we report that [15N]ammonium and, to a lesser degree, [15N]nitrate are assimilated into organic compounds by Solemya reidi, a gutless clam containing S-oxidizing bacteria, and seep mussel Ia, an undescribed mytilid containing methanotrophic bacteria. In contrast, Riftia pachyptila, the giant hydrothermal vent tube worm symbiotic with S-oxidizing bacteria, assimilated nitrate but not exogenous ammonium. The rates of assimilation of these sources are sufficient to at least partially support C1 compound metabolism. N2 assimilation was not exhibited by the symbionts tested. 相似文献
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In the presence of 0.5 millimolar allopurinol (4-hydroxypyrazolo [3,4-d]pyrimidine), an inhibitor of NAD:xanthine oxidoreductase (EC 1.2.3.2), intact attached nodules of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp. cv Vita 3) formed [15N]xanthine from 15N2 at rates equivalent to those of ureide synthesis, confirming the direct assimilation of fixed nitrogen into purines. Xanthine accumulated in nodules and was exported in increasing amounts in xylem of allopurinol-treated plants. Other intermediates of purine oxidation, de novo purine synthesis, and ammonia assimilation did not increase and, over the time course of experiments (4 hours), allopurinol had no effect on nitrogenase (EC 1.7.99.2) activity. Negligible 15N-labeling of asparagine from 15N2 was observed, suggesting that the significant pool (up to 14 micromoles per gram of nodule fresh weight) of this amide in cowpea nodules was not formed directly from fixation but may have accumulated as a consequence of phloem delivery. 相似文献
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Intertidal macroalgae Fucus and Laminaria experience seasonally fluctuating inorganic N supply. This study examined the effects of long‐term N deprivation, recovery following N resupply, and effects of elevated ammonium and nitrate exposure on N acquisition in intertidal algae using manipulations of N supply in tank culture. Over 15 weeks of N deprivation, internal N and nitrate reductase activity (NRA) declined, but maximum quantum yield of PSII was unaffected in Fucus serratus and Fucus vesiculosus. Low NRA was maintained despite no external nitrate availability and depletion of internal pools, suggesting a constitutive NRA, insensitive to N supply. Nitrate resupplied to N‐starved thalli was rapidly taken up and internal nitrate pools and NRA increased. Exposure to elevated (50 μM) nitrate over 4 days stimulated nitrate uptake and NRA in Laminaria digitata and F. serratus. Exposure to elevated ammonium suppressed NRA in L. digitata but not in F. serratus. This novel insensitivity of NRA to ammonium in Fucus contrasts with regulation of NRA in other algae and higher plants. Ammonium suppression of NRA in L. digitata was not via inhibition of nitrate uptake and was independent of nitrate availability. L. digitata showed a higher capacity for internal nitrate storage when exposed to elevated ambient nitrate, but NRA was lower than in Fucus. All species maintained nitrate assimilation capacity in excess of nitrate uptake capacity. N uptake and storage strategies of these intertidal macroalgae are adaptive to life in fluctuating N supply, and distinct regulation of N metabolism in Fucus vs Laminaria may relate to position in the intertidal zone. 相似文献
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Nitrogen form, availability, and mycorrhizal colonization affect biomass and nitrogen isotope patterns in Pinus sylvestris 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Erik A. Hobbie Jan V. Colpaert Marguerite W. White Andrew P. Ouimette Stephen A. Macko 《Plant and Soil》2008,310(1-2):121-136
Nitrogen (N) isotope patterns are useful for understanding carbon and nitrogen dynamics in mycorrhizal systems but questions remain about how different N forms, fungal symbionts, and N availabilities influence δ15N signatures. Here, we studied how biomass allocation and δ15N patterns in Pinus sylvestris L. cultures were affected by nitrogen supply rate (3% per day or 4% per day relative to the nitrogen already present), nitrogen form (ammonium versus nitrate), and mycorrhizal colonization by fungi with a greater (Laccaria laccata) or lesser (Suillus bovinus) ability to assimilate nitrate. Mycorrhizal (fungal) biomass was greater with ammonium than with nitrate nutrition for Suillus cultures but similar for Laccaria cultures. Total biomass was less with nitrate nutrition than with ammonium nutrition for nonmycorrhizal cultures and was less in mycorrhizal cultures than in nonmycorrhizal cultures. The sequestration of available N by mycorrhizal fungi limited plant N supply. This limitation and the higher energetic cost of nitrate reduction than ammonium assimilation appeared to control plant biomass accumulation. Colonization decreased foliar δ15N by 0.5 to 2.2‰ (nitrate) or 1.7 to 3.5‰ (ammonium) and increased root tip δ15N by 0 to 1‰ (nitrate) or 0.6 to 2.3‰ (ammonium). Root tip δ15N and fungal biomass on root tips were positively correlated in ammonium treatments (r 2?=?0.52) but not in nitrate treatments (r 2?=?0.00). Fungal biomass on root tips was enriched in 15N an estimated 6–8‰ relative to plant biomass in ammonium treatments. At high nitrate availability, Suillus colonization did not reduce plant δ15N. We conclude that: (1) transfer of 15N-depleted N from mycorrhizal fungi to plants produces low plant δ15N signatures and high root tip and fungal δ15N signatures; (2) limited nitrate reduction in fungi restricted transfer of 15N-depleted N to plants when nitrate is supplied and may account for many field observations of high plant δ15N under such conditions; (3) plants could transfer assimilated nitrogen to fungi at high nitrate supply but such transfer was without 15N fractionation. These factors probably control plant δ15N patterns across N availability gradients and were here incorporated into analytical equations for interpreting nitrogen isotope patterns in mycorrhizal fungi and plants. 相似文献
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The Effect of Potassium on the Fixation of Molecular Nitrogen by Root Nodules of Vicia faba 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
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The effect of potassium supply of Vicia faba on the fixation of molecular nitrogen by root nodules was studied by using 15N-labeled molecular nitrogen. Plants well supplied with potassium showed higher contents of 15N in the soluble amino fraction and in the protein fraction of various plant organs as compared with plants of a lower potassium status. This effect was evident particularly in the root nodules. Assimilation experiments, carried out with 14CO2, revealed that the content of radioactivity in the sugars and amino acids of the root nodules was increased by the potassium supply of the host plants. In particular, the content of 14C amino acids in the root nodules was influenced beneficially by potassium, which means that potassium favored the provision of reduced nitrogen (NH3). It is postulated that the better carbohydrate supply of nodules, by plants well supplied with potassium, results in a higher carbohydrate turnover in the nodules and thus the provision of ATP and reducing electrons required by the nitrogenase is enhanced. 相似文献
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NH4+-Excreting Azospirillum brasilense Mutants Enhance the Nitrogen Supply of a Wheat Host 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
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Spontaneous ethylenediamine-resistant mutants of Azospirillum brasilense were selected on the basis of their excretion of NH4+. Two mutants exhibited no repression of their nitrogenase enzyme systems in the presence of high (20 mM) concentrations of NH4+. The nitrogenase activities of these mutants on nitrogen-free minimal medium were two to three times higher than the nitrogenase activity of the wild type. The mutants excreted substantial amounts of ammonia when they were grown either under oxygen-limiting conditions (1 kPa of O2) or aerobically on nitrate or glutamate. The mutants grew well on glutamate as a sole nitrogen source but only poorly on NH4Cl. Both mutants failed to incorporate [14C]methylamine. We demonstrated that nitrite ammonification occurs in the mutants. Wild-type A. brasilense, as well as the mutants, became established in the rhizospheres of axenically grown wheat plants at levels of > 107 cells per g of root. The rhizosphere acetylene reduction activity was highest in the preparations containing the mutants. When plants were grown on a nitrogen-free nutritional medium, both mutants were responsible for significant increases in root and shoot dry matter compared with wild-type-treated plants or with noninoculated controls. Total plant nitrogen accumulation increased as well. When they were exposed to a 15N2-enriched atmosphere, both A. brasilense mutants incorporated significantly higher amounts of 15N inside root and shoot material than the wild type did. The results of our nitrogen balance and 15N enrichment studies indicated that NH4+-excreting A. brasilense strains potentially support the nitrogen supply of the host plants. 相似文献
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Growth and nitrogen fixation were followed during the life cycle of Setaria italica (foxtail millet) inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense in controlled-environment growth chambers. The plants were fertilized at seeding with a limiting amount of combined nitrogen and maintained with an N-free mineral solution. During maturation of the plants, substantial nitrogenase activity, measured by acetylene reduction, developed in the rhizosphere, with total fixation estimated to be equivalent to 20% of the N in the inoculated plants. The peak of this activity coincided with depletion of soluble nitrogen from the system, which in turn was reflected by a sharp decrease in the nitrate reductase activity of the leaves. A. brasilense was found in association with the root populations at 8 × 107 cells per gram of dry weight. An increase in shoot growth occurred at this time, but no significant increase in total plant nitrogen could be demonstrated. 15N2 enrichment experiments confirmed that fixation was occurring, but only about 5% of the nitrogen fixed by A. brasilense was incorporated into the plants within 3 weeks. There was thus no evidence of direct bacterium-to-plant transport of fixed nitrogen, but rather a slow transfer suggesting the gradual death of bacteria and subsequent mineralization of their nitrogen, at least under growth-room conditions. 相似文献
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Measurement of nitrogen fixation by soybean in the field using the ureide and natural N abundance methods
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Nitrogen fixation by field-grown soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merrill) was assessed by the natural 15N abundance and ureide methods. The field sites (five) and genotypes (six, plus two levels of inoculation on Bragg) were chosen to provide a range of proportions of plant N derived from nitrogen fixation (P). Genotypes K466, K468, nts1007, and nts1116 and Davis were included on the basis of their reported tolerance of the suppressive effects of nitrate on nodulation and nitrogen fixation. Bragg was included as a `nitrate-sensitive' genotype. Seeds of all genotypes were inoculated at sowing with Bradyrhizobium japonicum CB1809 (USDA136). Amounts of nitrate in the soil profile (0-1.2 meter depth) at sowing ranged from 70 (site 3) to 278 kilograms per hectare (site 5), resulting in large effects on plant nodulation, on the δ15N values of nodulated plants, on the relative abundance of ureide-N in vacuum-extracted sap (VES) and stem extracts, and finally on the estimates of P. There was no relationship between amount of soil nitrate at sowing and the δ15N of the plant-available soil N. Correlation matrices of the measured and calculated parameters indicated generally weak correlations between crop growth (dry matter and N) and the parameters of symbiotic activity (nodule weight, δ15N, relative ureide-N); correlations were strong and highly significant between nodulation and the measures of nitrogen fixation (δ15N, relative ureide-N; r = 0.79-0.92). Estimates of P ranged between 0 and 68% (δ15N) and between 6 and 56% (ureide) and were highly correlated (r = 0.97). Results indicated that the ureide method can be used with confidence to assess P by field-grown crops of soybean. 相似文献
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Ureide assay for measuring nitrogen fixation by nodulated soybean calibrated by N methods 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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We report experiments to quantify the relationships between the relative abundance of ureide-N in root-bleeding sap, vacuum-extracted sap, and hot water extracts of stems and petioles of nodulated soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merrill cv Bragg) and the proportion of plant N derived from nitrogen fixation. Additional experiments examined the effects of plant genotype and strain of rhizobia on these relationships. In each of the five experiments reported, plants of cv Bragg (experiment 1), cv Lincoln (experiments 3, 4, 5), or six cultivars/genotypes (experiment 2) were grown in a sand:vermiculite mixture in large pots in a naturally lit, temperature-controlled glasshouse during summer. Pots were inoculated at sowing with effective Bradyrhizobium japonicum CB1809 (USDA 136) or with one of 21 different strains of rhizobia. The proportions of plant N derived from nitrogen fixation were determined using 15N dilution. In one experiment with CB1809, plants were supplied throughout growth with either N-free nutrients or with nutrients supplemented with 1, 2, 4, or 8 millimolar 15N-nitrate and harvested on eight occasions between V6 and R7 for root-bleeding sap, vacuum-extracted sap, stems (including petioles), and whole plant dry matter. Analyses of the saps and stem extracts for ureides (allantoin plus allantoic acid), α-amino-N, and nitrate, and of dry matter for N and 15N, indicated a positive effect of nitrate supply on concentrations of nitrate in saps and extracts and a negative effect on ureides and on the proportion of plant N derived from nitrogen fixation. The relative abundance of ureide-N in root-bleeding sap, vacuum-extracted sap (100 [ureide-N]/[ureide-N+ α-amino-N + nitrate-N]) and stem extracts (100 [ureide-N]/[ureide-N + nitrate-N]) and the proportion of plant N, derived from nitrogen fixation between successive samplings were highly correlated (r = 0.97-1.00). For each variable, two standard curves were prepared to account for the shifts in the compositions of N solutes of xylem saps and extracts after flowering which were not related to a change in nitrogen fixation. Relationships between relative ureide-N and the proportion of plant N derived from nitrogen fixation were not affected by plant genotype or by strain of rhizobia. Therefore, assessment of nitrogen fixation by soybean using the ureide technique should now be possible with the standard curves presented, irrespective of genotype or strain of rhizobia occupying the nodules. 相似文献
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植物内生菌促进宿主氮吸收与代谢研究进展 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
内生菌与植物共生能够提高宿主的氮吸收与氮代谢水平,这可能是由于内生菌在植物体内引发的多种效应的综合结果.植物内生菌能够通过促进植物根系发育和固氮作用为宿主植物提供更多的无机氮素;能够通过分泌多种胞外酶系如漆酶、蛋白水解酶等使宿主植物更好地利用有机氮素;能够提高宿主氮代谢关键酶如硝酸还原酶(NR)、谷氨酰胺合成酶(GS)等酶的活性;能够提高宿主植物激素水平和维生素含量从而促进宿主氮代谢;能够通过影响宿主植物氮代谢促进宿主植物分蘖、提高宿主植物叶绿素含量和光合速率等等.综述了国内外关于植物内生菌促进宿主氮代谢的相关报道,归纳了植物内生菌影响宿主氮素吸收与代谢的可能机制,并展望了关于植物内生菌促进宿主氮代谢机制方面的研究方向. 相似文献
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Nitrate reductase activity (NRA) in different compartments (leaves, inflorescence stalks, flowers and tuberous roots) of Asphodelus aestivus Brot. (Liliaceae) and actual mineral nitrogen (NO3−-N and NH4+-N) in soil surrounding the roots were investigated over one year. Although the highest NRA was found in the leaves, the other plant compartments, such as flowers and tuberous roots, also have nitrate assimilation capacity. High nitrate assimilation capacity under suitable conditions is considered to be a good strategy for development and dominance of this species in Mediterranean environments. There was a seasonal variation in nitrate assimilation in leaves and actual NO3−-N content of soils. Depending on actual nitrate content of soils, nitrate assimilation increased in winter. 相似文献
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Nodule and Leaf Nitrate Reductases and Nitrogen Fixation in Medicago sativa L. under Water Stress
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The effect of water stress on patterns of nitrate reductase activity in the leaves and nodules and on nitrogen fixation were investigated in Medicago sativa L. plants watered 1 week before drought with or without NO3−. Nitrogen fixation was decreased by water stress and also inhibited strongly by the presence of NO3−. During drought, leaf nitrate reductase activity (NRA) decreased significantly particularly in plants watered with NO3−, while with rewatering, leaf NRA recovery was quite important especially in the NO3−-watered plants. As water stress progressed, the nodular NRA increased both in plants watered with NO3− and in those without NO3− contrary to the behavior of the leaves. Beyond −15.105 pascal, nodular NRA began to decrease in plants watered with NO3−. This phenomenon was not observed in nodules of plants given water only. 相似文献
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Nitrogen Nutrition and Xylem Sap Composition of Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L. cv Virginia Bunch)
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The principal forms of amino nitrogen transported in xylem were studied in nodulated and non-nodulated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.). In symbiotic plants, asparagine and the nonprotein amino acid, 4-methyleneglutamine, were identified as the major components of xylem exudate collected from root systems decapitated below the lowest nodule or above the nodulated zone. Sap bleeding from detached nodules carried 80% of its nitrogen as asparagine and less than 1% as 4-methyleneglutamine. Pulse-feeding nodulated roots with 15N2 gas showed asparagine to be the principal nitrogen product exported from N2-fixing nodules. Maintaining root systems in an N2-deficient (argon:oxygen, 80:20, v/v) atmosphere for 3 days greatly depleted asparagine levels in nodules. 4-Methyleneglutamine represented 73% of the total amino nitrogen in the xylem sap of non-nodulated plants grown on nitrogen-free nutrients, but relative levels of this compound decreased and asparagine increased when nitrate was supplied. The presence of 4-methyleneglutamine in xylem exudate did not appear to be associated with either N2 fixation or nitrate assimilation, and an origin from cotyledon nitrogen was suggested from study of changes in amount of the compound in tissue amino acid pools and in root bleeding xylem sap following germination. Changes in xylem sap composition were studied in nodulated plants receiving a range of levels of 15N-nitrate, and a 15N dilution technique was used to determine the proportions of accumulated plant nitrogen derived from N2 or fed nitrate. The abundance of asparagine in xylem sap and the ratio of asparagine:nitrate fell, while the ratio of nitrate:total amino acid rose as plants derived less of their organic nitrogen from N2. Assays based on xylem sap composition are suggested as a means of determining the relative extents to which N2 and nitrate are being used in peanuts. 相似文献
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Nitrogen fixation and metabolism by groundwater-dependent perennial plants in a hyperarid desert 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The Central Asian Taklamakan desert is characterized by a hyperarid climate with less than 50 mm annual precipitation but a permanent shallow groundwater table. The perched groundwater (2–16 m) could present a reliable and constant source of nitrogen throughout the growing season and help overcome temporal nitrogen limitations that are common in arid environments. We investigated the importance of groundwater and nitrogen fixation in the nitrogen metabolism of desert plants by assessing the possible forms and availability of soil N and atmospheric N and the seasonal variation in concentration as well as isotopic composition of plant N. Water availability was experimentally modified in the desert foreland through simulated flooding to estimate the contribution of surface water and temporally increased soil moisture for nutrient uptake and plant–water relations. The natural vegetation of the Taklamakan desert is dominated by plants with high foliar nitrogen concentrations (2–3% DM) and leaf nitrate reductase activity (NRA) (0.2–1 mol NO2– g–1 FW h–1). There is little evidence that nitrogen is a limiting resource as all perennial plants exhibited fast rates of growth. The extremely dry soil conditions preclude all but minor contributions of soil N to total plant N so that groundwater is suggested as the dominant source of N with concentrations of 100 M NO3–. Flood irrigation had little beneficial effect on nitrogen metabolism and growth, further confirming the dependence on groundwater. Nitrogen fixation was determined by the 15N natural abundance method and was a significant component of the N-requirement of the legume Alhagi, the average contribution of biologically fixed nitrogen in Alhagi was 54.8%. But nitrogen fixing plants had little ecological advantage owing to the more or less constant supply of N available from groundwater. From our data we conclude that the perennial species investigated have adapted to the environmental conditions through development of root systems that access groundwater to satisfy demands for both water and nutrients. This is an ecologically favourable strategy since only groundwater is a predictable and stable resource. 相似文献
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Allison S. McInnes Alicia K. Shepard Eric J. Raes Anya M. Waite Antonietta Quigg 《Applied and environmental microbiology》2014,80(21):6750-6759
Understanding the interconnectivity of oceanic carbon and nitrogen cycles, specifically carbon and nitrogen fixation, is essential in elucidating the fate and distribution of carbon in the ocean. Traditional techniques measure either organism abundance or biochemical rates. As such, measurements are performed on separate samples and on different time scales. Here, we developed a method to simultaneously quantify organisms while estimating rates of fixation across time and space for both carbon and nitrogen. Tyramide signal amplification fluorescence in situ hybridization (TSA-FISH) of mRNA for functionally specific oligonucleotide probes for rbcL (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase; carbon fixation) and nifH (nitrogenase; nitrogen fixation) was combined with flow cytometry to measure abundance and estimate activity. Cultured samples representing a diversity of phytoplankton (cyanobacteria, coccolithophores, chlorophytes, diatoms, and dinoflagellates), as well as environmental samples from the open ocean (Gulf of Mexico, USA, and southeastern Indian Ocean, Australia) and an estuary (Galveston Bay, Texas, USA), were successfully hybridized. Strong correlations between positively tagged community abundance and 14C/15N measurements are presented. We propose that these methods can be used to estimate carbon and nitrogen fixation in environmental communities. The utilization of mRNA TSA-FISH to detect multiple active microbial functions within the same sample will offer increased understanding of important biogeochemical cycles in the ocean. 相似文献