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. 1979 Oct;64(4):660–662. doi: 10.1104/pp.64.4.660

Effect of Shoot Removal and Malate on the Activity of Nitrate Reductase Assayed in Vivo in Barley Roots (Hordeum vulgare cv. Midas)

Celia E Deane-Drummond a,1,2, David T Clarkson a, Christopher B Johnson b,2
PMCID: PMC543156  PMID: 16661028

Abstract

There is a diurnal variation of nitrate reductase activity (NRA) measured in vivo in barley roots (Hordeum vulgare cv. Midas). In intact plants receiving a 16-hour photoperiod, NRA increases when the light is switched on, reaches a maximum value after 7 to 8 hours, and thereafter declines. Shoot removal (detopping) at the start of the photoperiod prevents the rise in NRA; detopping after 5 hours light leads to a rapid fall in NRA. The inclusion of 10 millimolar malate in the external medium causes a rise in NRA in plants detopped at the beginning of the photoperiod and thus seems to substitute partially for the illuminated shoot. Oxalate, fumarate, and tartrate did not have this effect. Preincubation of the roots of intact plants with 10 millimolar malate for 3 hours, prior to detopping, causes an increase in the flux of amino acids into the xylem sap of detopped roots.

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