Light and Dark Controls of Nitrate Reduction in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Protoplasts 1
AUTOR(ES)
Reed, Andrew J.
RESUMO
Protoplasts were isolated from the leaves of nitrate-cultured wheat (Triticum aestivum L. var. Frederick) seedlings. When incubated in the dark, protoplasts accumulated nitrite under anaerobic, but not under aerobic, conditions. The assimilation of [15N]nitrite by protoplasts was strictly light-dependent, and no loss of nitrite from the assay medium was observed under dark aerobic conditions. Therefore, the absence of nitrite accumulation under dark aerobic conditions was the result of an O2 inhibition of nitrate reduction and not a stimulation of nitrite reduction. In the presence of antimycin A, protoplasts accumulated nitrite under dark aerobic conditions. The oxygen inhibition of nitrate reduction was apparently due to a competition between nitrate reduction and dark respiration for cytoplasmic-reducing equivalents.
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