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. 1968 May;43(5):775-80.
doi: 10.1104/pp.43.5.775.

Evidence for a role of calcium in nitrate assimilation in wheat seedlings

G M Paulsen  1 , J E Harper
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Evidence for a role of calcium in nitrate assimilation in wheat seedlings

G M Paulsen et al. Plant Physiol. 1968 May.

Abstract

Severely Ca-deficient Triticum aestivum L. seedlings accumulated high levels of nitrite and moderate levels of nitrate and organic nitrogen, but contained unaltered levels of hydroxylamine. Nitrite accumulation was not related to molybdenum deficiency, or altered cellular pH. Nitrate reductase was decreased by Ca deficiency, apparently by repression of enzyme synthesis from accumulated nitrite and not by inhibition of enzyme activity. Nitrite reductase and NADP diaphorase activities were not affected by Ca deficiency, and Ca did not restore activity to nitrite reductase inactivated by cyanide. The results indicated that the role of Ca is in intracellular transport of nitrite and not in induction or activity of enzymes.

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