Involvement of nitrate reduction in the tolerance of tomato (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Solanum lycopersicum</Emphasis> L.) plants to prolonged root hypoxia |
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Authors: | Faouzi Horchani Samira Aschi-Smiti Renaud Brouquisse |
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Institution: | 1.Département des Sciences Biologiques, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis,UR d’Ecologie Végétale,Tunis,Tunisia;2.UMR-IBSV (Interactions Biotiques et Santé Végétale) Centre de Sophia-Antipolis,Sophia-Antipolis Cedex,France |
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Abstract: | The putative role of nitrate and nitrate reductase in the tolerance to prolonged hypoxia was investigated in tomato plants.
Nitrogen nutrition has been modified either by deprivation of nitrate or by addition of tungstate—an inhibitor of nitrate
reductase (NR)—in the culture medium. In the absence of nitrate as well as in the presence of tungstate, plant growth was
significantly disturbed. In the presence of nitrate, the growth of hypoxic plants maintained, nitrate absorption and NR activity
increased and a significant release of nitrite into the medium was observed. This mechanism of nitrate reduction, called nitrate
respiration, could be an alternative pathway to oxygen-dependent respiration during root hypoxia and a transient adaptation
of tomato roots to hypoxic conditions. |
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