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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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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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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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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 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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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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The effect of NaCl and Na 2SO 4 salinity on NO 3− assimilation in young barley ( Hordeum vulgare L. var Numar) seedlings was studied. The induction of the NO 3− transporter was affected very little; the major effect of the salts was on its activity. Both Cl − and SO 42− salts severely inhibited uptake of NO 3−. When compared on the basis of osmolality of the uptake solutions, Cl − salts were more inhibitory (15-30%) than SO 42− salts. At equal concentrations, SO 42− salts inhibited NO 3− uptake 30 to 40% more than did Cl − salts. The absolute concentrations of each ion seemed more important as inhibitors of NO 3− uptake than did the osmolality of the uptake solutions. Both K + and Na + salts inhibited NO 3− uptake similarly; hence, the process seemed more sensitive to anionic salinity than to cationic salinity. Unlike NO3− uptake, NO3− reduction was not affected by salinity in short-term studies (12 hours). The rate of reduction of endogenous NO3− in leaves of seedlings grown on NaCl for 8 days decreased only 25%. Nitrate reductase activity in the salt-treated leaves also decreased 20% but its activity, determined either in vitro or by the `anaerobic' in vivo assay, was always greater than the actual in situ rate of NO3− reduction. When salts were added to the assay medium, the in vitro enzymic activity was severely inhibited; whereas the anaerobic in vivo nitrate reductase activity was affected only slightly. These results indicate that in situ nitrate reductase activity is protected from salt injury. The susceptibility to injury of the NO3− transporter, rather than that of the NO3− reduction system, may be a critical factor to plant survival during salt stress. 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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Phospho enolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPcase) activity was studied in excised leaves of wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) in the dark and in the light, in presence of either N-free (low-NO 3− leaves) or 40 millimolar KNO 3 (high-NO 3− leaves) nutrient solutions. PEPcase activity increased to 2.7-fold higher than that measured in dark-adapted tissue (control) during the first 60 minutes and continued to increase more slowly to 3.8-fold that of the control. This level was reached after 200 minutes exposure of the leaves to light and high NO 3−. In contrast, the lower rate of increase recorded for low-NO 3− leaves ceased after 60 minutes of exposure to light at 2.3-fold the control level. The short-term NO 3− effect increased linearly with the level of NO 3− uptake. In immunoprecipitation experiments, the antibody concentration for PEPcase precipitation increased with the protein extracts from the different treatments in the order: control, illuminated low-NO 3− leaves, illuminated high-NO 3− leaves. This order also applied with regard to a decreasing sensitivity to malate and an increasing stimulation by okadaic acid (an inhibitor of P-protein phosphatases). Following these studies, 32P labeling experiments were carried out in vivo. These showed that the light-induced change in the properties of the PEPcase was due to an alteration in the phosphorylation state of the protein and that this effect was enhanced in high-NO 3− conditions. Based on the responses of PEPcase and sucrose phosphate synthase in wheat leaves to light and NO 3−, an interpretation of the role of NO 3− as either an inhibitor of P-protein phosphatase(s) or activator of protein kinase(s) is inferred. In the presence of NO 3−, the phosphorylation state of both PEPcase and sucrose phosphate synthase is increased. This causes activation of the former enzyme and inhibition of the latter. We suggest that NO 3− modulates the relative protein kinase/protein phosphatase ratio to favor increased phosphorylation of both enzymes in order to redirect carbon flow away from sucrose synthesis and toward amino acid synthesis. 相似文献
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The enzyme catalase (EC 1.11.1.6) is light sensitive and subject to a rapid turnover in light, similar to the D1 reaction center protein of photosystem II. After 3 h of preadaptation to darkness or to different light intensities (90 and 520 μmol m −2 s −1 photosynthetic photon flux density), sections of rye leaves ( Secale cereale L.) were labeled for 4 h with l-[ 35S]methionine. From leaf extracts, catalase was immunoprecipitated with an antiserum prepared against the purified enzyme from rye leaves. Both incorporation into catalase and degradation of the enzyme polypeptide during a subsequent 16-h chase period increased with light intensity. At a photon flux density of 520 μmol m −2 s −1, the apparent half-time of catalase in rye leaves was 3 to 4 h, whereas that of the D1 protein was much shorter, about 1.5 h. Exposure to stress conditions, such as 0.6 m NaCl or a heat-shock temperature of 40°C, greatly suppressed both total protein synthesis and incorporation of the label into catalase and into the D1 protein. Immunoblotting assays indicated that in light, but not in darkness, steady-state levels of catalase and of the D1 protein strongly declined during treatments with salt, heat shock, or translation inhibitors that block repair synthesis. Because of the common property of rapid photodegradation and the resulting dependence on continuous repair, declines in catalase as well as of the D1 protein represent specific and sensitive indicators for stress conditions that suppress the translational activities of leaves. 相似文献
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Addition of NO 3− to N-limited Selenastrum minutum during photosynthesis resulted in an immediate drop in the NADPH/NADP ratio and a slower increase of the NADH/NAD ratio. These changes were accompanied by a rapid decrease in glucose-6-phosphate and increase in 6-phosphogluconate, indicating activation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and a role for the oxidation pentose phosphate pathway during photosynthetic NO 3− assimilation. In contrast, the short-term changes in pyridine nucleotides and metabolites during photosynthetic assimilation of NH 4+ were not consistent with a stimulation of the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway. 相似文献
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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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High-resolution NO 3− profiles in freshwater sediment covered with benthic diatoms were obtained with a new microscale NO 3− biosensor characterized by absence of interference from chemical species other than NO 2− and N 2O. Analysis of the microprofiles obtained indicated no nitrification during darkness, high rates of nitrification and a tight coupling between nitrification and denitrification during illumination, and substantial rates of NO 3− assimilation during illumination. Nitrification during darkness could be induced by purging the bulk water with O 2 gas, indicating that the stimulatory effect on nitrification by illumination was caused by algal production of O 2. NH 4+ addition did not stimulate nitrification during darkness when O 2 was restricted to the upper 1-mm layer, and there was thus a low nitrification potential in the permanently oxic top 1 mm of the sediment. 相似文献
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The objectives of this study were to select and initially characterize mutants of soybean ( Glycine max L. Merr. cv Williams) with decreased ability to reduce nitrate. Selection involved a chlorate screen of approximately 12,000 seedlings (progeny of mutagenized seed) and subsequent analyses for low nitrate reductase (LNR) activity. Three lines, designated LNR-2, LNR-3, and LNR-4, were selected by this procedure. In growth chamber studies, the fully expanded first trifoliolate leaf from NO3−-grown LNR-2, LNR-3, and LNR-4 plants had approximately 50% of the wild-type NR activity. Leaves from urea-grown LNR-2, LNR-3, and LNR-4 plants had no NR activity while leaves from comparable wild-type plants had considerable activity; the latter activity does not require the presence of NO3− in the nutrient solution for induction and on this basis is tentatively considered as a constitutive enzyme. Summation of constitutive (urea-grown wild-type plants) and inducible (NO3−-grown LNR-2, LNR-3, or LNR-4 plants) leaf NR activities approximated activity in leaves of NO3−-grown wild-type plants. Root NR activities were comparable in wild-type and mutant plants grown on NO3−, and roots of both plant types lacked constitutive NR activity when grown on urea. In both growth chamber- and field-grown plants, oxides of nitrogen [NO(x)] were evolved from young leaves of wild-type plants, but not from leaves of LNR-2 plants, during in vivo NR assays. Analysis of leaves from different canopy locations showed that constitutive NR activity was confined to the youngest three fully expanded leaves of the wild-type plant and, therefore, on a total plant canopy basis, the NR activity of LNR-2 plants was approximately 75% that of wild-type plants. It is concluded that: (a) the NR activity in leaves of NO3−-grown wild-type plants includes both constitutive and inducible activity; (b) the missing NR activity in LNR-2, LNR-3, and LNR-4 leaves is the constitutive component; and (c) the constitutive NR activity is associated with NO(x) evolution and occurs only in physiologically young leaves. 相似文献
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Most models of carbon gain as a function of photosynthetic irradiance assume an instantaneous response to increases and decreases in irradiance. High- and low-light-grown plants differ, however, in the time required to adjust to increases and decreases in irradiance. In this study the response to a series of increases and decreases in irradiance was observed in Chrysanthemum × morifolium Ramat. “Fiesta” and compared with calculated values assuming an instantaneous response. There were significant differences between high- and low-light-grown plants in their photosynthetic response to four sequential photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) cycles consisting of 5-minute exposures to 200 and 400 micromoles per square meter per second (μmol m −2s −1). The CO 2 assimilation rate of high-light-grown plants at the cycle peak increased throughout the PPFD sequence, but the rate of increase was similar to the increase in CO 2 assimilation rate observed under continuous high-light conditions. Low-light leaves showed more variability in their response to light cycles with no significant increase in CO 2 assimilation rate at the cycle peak during sequential cycles. Carbon gain and deviations from actual values (percentage carbon gain over- or underestimation) based on assumptions of instantaneous response were compared under continuous and cyclic light conditions. The percentage carbon gain overestimation depended on the PPFD step size and growth light level of the leaf. When leaves were exposed to a large PPFD increase, the carbon gain was overestimated by 16 to 26%. The photosynthetic response to 100 μmol m −2 s −1 PPFD increases and decreases was rapid, and the small overestimation of the predicted carbon gain, observed during photosynthetic induction, was almost entirely negated by the carbon gain underestimation observed after a decrease. If the PPFD cycle was 200 or 400 μmol m −2 s −1, high- and low-light leaves showed a carbon gain overestimation of 25% that was not negated by the underestimation observed after a light decrease. When leaves were exposed to sequential PPFD cycles (200-400 μmol m −2 s −1), carbon gain did not differ from leaves exposed to a single PPFD cycle of identical irradiance integral that had the same step size (200-400-200 μmol m −2 s −1) or mean irradiance (200-300-200 μmol m −2 s −1). 相似文献
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Soybean ( Glycine max [L.] Merr.) seeds were imbibed and germinated with or without NO 3−, tungstate, and norflurazon (San 9789). Norflurazon is a herbicide which causes photobleaching of chlorophyll by inhibiting carotenoid synthesis and which impairs normal chloroplast development. After 3 days in the dark, seedlings were placed in white light to induce extractable nitrate reductase activity. The induction of maximal nitrate reductase activity in greening cotyledons did not require NO 3− and was not inhibited by tungstate. Induction of nitrate reductase activity in norflurazon-treated cotyledons had an absolute requirement for NO 3− and was completely inhibited by tungstate. Nitrate was not detected in seeds or seedlings which had not been treated with NO 3−. The optimum pH for cotyledon nitrate reductase activity from norflurazon-treated seedlings was at pH 7.5, and near that for root nitrate reductase activity, whereas the optimum pH for nitrate reductase activity from greening cotyledons was pH 6.5. Induction of root nitrate reductase activity was also inhibited by tungstate and was dependent on the presence of NO 3−, further indicating that the isoform of nitrate reductase induced in norflurazon-treated cotyledons is the same or similar to that found in roots. Nitrate reductases with and without a NO 3− requirement for light induction appear to be present in developing leaves. In vivo kinetics (light induction and dark decay rates) and in vitro kinetics (Arrhenius energies of activation and NADH:NADPH specificities) of nitrate reductases with and without a NO 3− requirement for induction were quite different. Km values for NO 3− were identical for both nitrate reductases. 相似文献
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Previously, C Baysdorfer and JM Robinson (1985 Plant Physiol 77: 318-320) demonstrated that, in a reconstituted spinach chloroplast system, NADP photoreduction functioning at most maximal rate and reductant demand, was the successful competitor with NO 2− photoreduction for reduced ferredoxin. This resulted in a repression of NO 2− reduction until all NADP available had been almost totally reduced. Further experiments, employing isolated, intact spinach leaf plastids and soybean leaf mesophyll cells, were conducted to examine competition for reductant between CO 2 and NO 2− photoassimilation, in situ. In isolated, intact plastid preparations, regardless of whether the demand for reductant by CO 2 photoassimilation was high (5 millimolar `CO 2') with rates of CO 2 fixation in the range 40 to 90 micromoles CO 2 fixed per hour per milligram chlorophyll, low (0.5 millimolar `CO 2') with rates in the range 5 to 8 micromoles CO 2 per hour per milligram chlorophyll, or zero (no `CO 2'), NO 2− photoreduction displayed equal rates in the range of 8 to 22 micromoles per hour per milligram chlorophyll. In the absence of `CO 2', but in the presence of saturating white light, 3-phosphoglycerate photoreduction at rates of 82 to 127 micromoles per hour per milligram chlorophyll did not repress, and occasionally stimulated concomitant rates of NO 2− reduction which ranged from 23.4 to 38.5. Conversely, in plastid preparations, NO 2− at levels of 50 to 100 micromolar, stimulated plastid CO 2 fixation when `CO 2' was saturating with respect to carboxylation. Further, levels of NO 2− in the range 250 to 2500 micromolar, stimulated soybean leaf mesophyll cell net CO 2 fixation as much as 1.5-fold if `CO 2' was saturating with respect to CO 2 fixation. It appeared likely that, in high light in vivo, CO 2 and NO 2− photoassimilatory processes are not forced to intercompete for reduced ferredoxin in the intact chloroplast. 相似文献
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Phosphate-limited chemostat cultures were used to study cell growth and N assimilation in Anabaena flos-aquae under various N sources to determine the relative energetic costs associated with the assimilation of NH 3, NO 3−, or N 2. Expressed as a function of relative growth rate, steady state cellular P contents and PO 4 assimilation rates did not vary with N-source. However, N-source did alter the maximal PO 4-limited growth rate achieved by the cultures: the NO 3− and N 2 cultures attained only 97 and 80%, respectively, of the maximal growth rate of the NH 3 grown cells. Cellular biomass and C contents did not vary with growth rate, but changed with N source. The NO 3−-grown cells were the smallest (627 ± 34 micromoles C · 10 −9 cells), while NH 3-grown cells were largest (900 ± 44 micromoles C · 10 −9 cells) and N 2-fixing cells were intermediate (726 ± 48 micromoles C · 10 −9 cells) in size. In the NO 3−-and N 2-grown cultures, N content per cell was only 57 and 63%, respectively, of that in the NH 3-grown cells. Heterocysts were absent in NH 3-grown cultures but were present in both the N 2 and NO 3− cultures. In the NO 3−-grown cultures C 2H 2 reduction was detected only at high growth rates, where it was estimated to account for a maximum of 6% of the N assimilated. In the N 2-fixing cultures the acetylene:N 2 ratio varied from 3.4:1 at lower growth rates to 3.0:1 at growth rates approaching maximal. Compared with NH3, the assimilation of NO3− and N2 resulted either in a decrease in cellular C (NO3− and N2 cultures) or in a lower maximal growth rate (N2 culture only). The observed changes in cell C content were used to calculate the net cost (in electron pair equivalents) associated with growth on NO3− or N2 compared with NH3. 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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The utilization of NO 3− by green algae growing photoautotrophically under air, which are growth conditions close to their more habitual situations in nature, is associated with the excretion of NO 2− and NH 4+ to the culture medium. The entire process is promoted by blue light and depends on photosynthetically active radiation for the required reducing equivalents. The stimulation of NO 3− utilization and of its associated NO 2− and NH 4+ excretions saturated at very low quantum fluxes of blue light (15 microequivalents per square meter per second) in Chlamydomonas reinhardii cells sparged with CO 2-free air and irradiated with 50 microequivalents per square meter per second background red light. The wavelength dependence data of this stimulation correlated closely with the in situ photoactivation of nitrate reductase and also with the light induced increase in its biosynthesis and/or assembly. These results indicate that the photoregulation of inorganic N metabolism in C. reinhardii is mainly due to the blue light modulation of nitrate reductase. Although flavins are the most suitable candidates to act as physiological photoreceptors, the wavelength dependence data only show a major peak in the blue region between 400 and 500 nanometers. 相似文献
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