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. 1989 May;90(1):359–364. doi: 10.1104/pp.90.1.359

Rhizosphere Acidification by Iron Deficient Bean Plants: The Role of Trace Amounts of Divalent Metal Ions

A Study on Roots of Intact Plants with the Use of 11C- and 31P-NMR

H Frits Bienfait 1,2,3,1, Henk J Lubberding 1,2,3,2, Peter Heutink 1,2,3, L Lindner 1,2,3, Jacques Visser 1,2,3, Rob Kaptein 1,2,3,3, Klaas Dijkstra 1,2,3
PMCID: PMC1061722  PMID: 16666763

Abstract

Rhizosphere acidification by Fe-deficient bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) plants was induced by trace amounts of divalent metal ions (Zn, Mn). The induction of this Fe-efficiency reaction was studied by 14CO2 and 11CO2 fixation experiments, and with 31P-NMR on roots of whole plants. The starting and ending of an acidification cycle was closely coupled to parallel changes in CO2 fixation, within the maximal resolution capacity of 20 min. 31P-NMR experiments on intact root systems showed one peak which was ascribed to vacuolar free phosphate. At the onset of proton extrusion this peak shifted, indicating increase of pH in the cells. Proton extrusion was inhibited, with a lag period of 2 hours, by the protein synthesis inhibitors cycloheximide and hygromycin. It is assumed that Zn and Mn induce proton extrusion in Fe-deficient bean roots by activating the synthesis of a short-living polypeptide; the NMR data suggest a role for this peptide in the functioning of a proton pumping ATPase in the plasma membrane.

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