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Plant Physiology 52:513-517 (1973)
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Effects of Helminthosporium carbonum Toxin on Nitrate Uptake and Reduction by Corn Tissues 1,2

O. C. Yoder3 and R. P. Scheffer

a Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823

Susceptible corn tissues exposed to the host-specific toxin of Helminthosporium carbonum race 1 reduced more nitrate to nitrite than did control tissues, as measured by an in vivo method. There were no differences in nitrate reductase activities extracted from treated and control tissues and assayed by an in vitro method. Toxin-treated susceptible roots removed nitrate from solution and accumulated it in the tissues twice as fast as did control roots. Uptake by resistant roots was stimulated also, provided approximately 100 times higher concentrations of toxin were used. Toxin-stimulated nitrate uptake occurred in the presence of tungstate, which eliminates nitrate reductase activity. Toxin did not cause leakage of nitrate from roots under these conditions. Thus, toxin-enhanced nitrate accumulation was caused by increased nitrate uptake rather than by decreased nitrate metabolism or decreased nitrate leakage. The data indicate that toxin increases the rate of nitrate reduction in vivo by increasing the availability of substrate, not by stimulation of enzyme synthesis.

3 Present address: Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.

1 Aided by National Science Foundation Grant GB-24962.

2 Journal Article 6392, Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.




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