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lSN\_labelled nitrate was used to show that nitrate reduction by leaf discs in darkness was suppressed by oxygen, whereas nitrite present within the cell could be reduced under aerobic dark conditions. In other experiments, unlabelled nitrite, allowed to accumulate in the tissue during the dark anaerobic reduction of nitrate was shown by chemical analysis to be metabolised during a subsequent dark aerobic period. Leaves of intact plants resembled incubated leaf discs in accumulating nitrite under anaerobic conditions. Nitrate, n-propanol and several respiratory inhibitors or uncouplers partly reversed the inhibitory effect of oxygen on nitrate reduction in leaf discs in the dark. Of these nitrate and propanol acted synergistically. Reversal was usually associated with inhibition of respiration but some concentrations of 2,4dinitrophenol (DNP) and ioxynil reversed inhibition without affecting respiratory rates. Respiratory inhibitors and uncouplers stimulated nitrate reduction in the anaerobic in vivo assay i.e. in conditions where the respiratory process is non-functional. Freezing and thawing leaf discs diminished but did not eliminate the sensitivity of nitrate reduction to oxyge

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Author

A. F. Mann; D. P. Hucklesby; E. J. Hewitt

Publisher

Springer-Verlag; Springer Verlag; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 0032-0935)

Published

1979

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)