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. 2018 Aug 21;8:12504. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-30884-x

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Fluxes changing with alternating nitrogen sources. Nitrate nutrition requires large amounts of reductants produced by the TCA and leads to an export of negative charges (via HCO3). Ammonium nutrition is energetically cheaper, and allows the use of reductants for ATP synthesis, while simultaneously leads to a export of protons from the plant.