In Vivo Nitrate Reduction in Relation to Nitrate Uptake, Nitrate Content, and in Vitro Nitrate Reductase Activity in Intact Barley Seedlings 1

AUTOR(ES)

Chantarotwong, Wongchan

RESUMO

A study was done to relate the in vivo reduction of nitrate to nitrate uptake, nitrate accumulation, and induction of nitrate reductase activity in intact barley seedlings (Hordeum vulgare L. var. `Numar'). The characteristics of nitrate uptake in response to both time and ambient concentration of nitrate regulated reduction and accumulation. Uptake, accumulation, and in vivo reduction achieved steady state rates in 3 to 4 hours, whereas extractable (in vitro) nitrate reductase activity was still increasing at 12 hours. In vivo reduction of nitrate was better correlated exponentially than linearly over time with in vitro activity of nitrate reductase. A similar relationship occurred over increasing concentration of nitrate in the ambient solution. The results suggest that the rate of in vivo reduction of nitrate in barley seedlings may be regulated by the rate of uptake at the ambient concentrations of nitrate employed in the study.

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