Dipeptide (Leu-Leu) and nitrate transport activities of 26 Arabidopsis NPF (NRT1/PTR Family) proteins were screened in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Xenopus laevis oocytes, respectively. Dipeptide transport activity has been confirmed for 2 already known dipeptide transporters (AtNPF8.1 and AtNPF8.3) but none of the other tested NPFs displays dipeptide transport. The nitrate transport screen res...

In this study, eight transformed Solanum tuberosum L. plants, affected in their nitrate assimilatory pathway by the introduction of a tobacco nitrate reductase gene (Nia2), were cultivated in glasshouse conditions at INRA Ploudaniel (West Brittany, France). Two irrigation regimes were compared and plants were sampled at four stages of vegetation. Yield, tuber dry matter content, total nitrogen ...

-A three-compartment lettuce model designed to predict growth and nitrate concentration under severe nitrogen stress conditions is described and calibrated using data of N-limitation experiments. Since the limited amount of data does not allow calibration of all the model parameters, sensitivity analysis was used to determine which parameters should be estimated using this data. The calibrated ...

Unpublished studies in the files of the Pineapple Research Institute of Hawaii indicate that under present cultural conditions the .pineapp1e plant displays superior performance with a foliar applied combination of ammonium and nitrate nitrogen than with either form of nitrogen alone. The studies presented here were undertaken to evaluate ammonium nitrate as a nitrogen source under different so...

Problem statement: In today’s scenario, microalgae are widely recognized as a promising source for biofuel production as a renewable source of energy. They are exceedingly rich in oil, which can be converted to biofuel. This paper deals with one of the method to enhance the lipid content in microalgae. Approach: Microalga, Chlorella pyrenoidosa, was grown autotrophically in batch culture and th...

in order to investigate the effect of different ratios of ammonium: nitrate on the photosynthesis and fatty acid composition in canola (brassica napus l.) under different levels of salinity, an experiment was conducted as a factorial based on complete randomize design at agricultural research center in east azerbaijan in 2010. the first factor was different ratios of nitrogen sources to ammoniu...

Nitrogen fertilizer application rates in intensive agricultural systems have increased dramatically in recent years, especially in protected vegetable production systems. This excessive use of nitrogen fertilizer has resulted in soil secondary salinity, which has become a significant environmental stress for crops such as cucumber, in the protected farmlands. It is thus necessary to illuminate ...

nitrogen concentration, temperature and light intensity. Nitrogen is one of the essential nutrients critical for the cultivation of algae due to its role in growth and regulation of metabolism [1]. It is well documented that there are three different sources of nitrogen such as nitrate, ammonia and urea, which are absorbed by microalgae [2,3]. Urea is known to contain approximately 46.7% nitrog...

As natural plant growth stimulators, amino acids are widely used to improve the yield and quality of crops. Change in enzymes activities of N assimilation (NR, NiR and GS), residual nitrate (NO3-), soluble protein content, and yield of spinach and lettuce plants were investigated under replacing 20% nitrate-N in the nutrient solution by L-glycine and blood meal amino acids. Seeds of the mention...

The hydroponic culture experiments of soybean bean seedlings were conducted to investigate the effect of lanthanum (La) on nitrogen metabolism under two different levels of elevated UV-B radiation (UV-B, 280-320 nm). The whole process of nitrogen metabolism involves uptake and transport of nitrate, nitrate assimilation, ammonium assimilation, amino acid biosynthesis, and protein synthesis. Comp...