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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-6-29
pubmed:abstractText
The response of non-nodulated cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. cv Caloona) to a wide range of NO(3) levels in the rooting medium was studied 40 days after sowing by in vitro assays of plant organs for NO(3) reductase (EC 1.6.6.1) and analyses of root bleeding (xylem) sap for nitrogenous solutes. Plants fed 1, 5, 10, 20, and 40 millimolar NO(3) showed, respectively, 64, 92, 94, and 91% of their total reductase activity in shoots and 34, 30, 66, 62, and 58% of the total N of their xylem sap as NO(3). These data, and the absence in the plants of significant pools of stored NO(3), indicated that shoots were major organs of NO(3) assimilation, especially at levels of NO(3) (10 to 40 millimolar) that maintained plant growth at near maximum rates. Partitioning and utilization of C and N were studied in nodulated, minus NO(3) plants and non-nodulated plants fed 10 or 20 millimolar NO(3), the levels of NO(3) which gave rates of growth and N assimilation closest to those of the symbiotic plants. The conversion of the C of net photosynthate to dry matter was similar in nodulated plants (67%) and NO(3)-grown plants (64%), but greater proportions of photosynthate were translocated to below ground parts of nodulated plants (37%) than of NO(3)-fed plants (23 to 26%). Greater photosynthate consumption by nodulated roots was associated with proportionately greater root growth and respiration and 2-fold greater export of C in xylem than in the NO(3)-fed plants. Theoretical considerations suggest that the elevated CO(2) output of nodulated roots was due not only to CO(2) loss associated with nodule function, but also to a much greater nonassimilatory component of respiration in the supporting root of the nodulated plant compared to roots of the NO(3)-fed plants. Data are compared with previously published information from other legumes.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0032-0889
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
66
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
978-83
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-15
pubmed:year
1980
pubmed:articleTitle
Economy of Carbon and Nitrogen in Nodulated and Nonnodulated (NO(3)-grown) Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.].
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Botany, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, 6009.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article