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Differential Regulation of Nitrate Reductase Induction in Roots and Shoots of Cotton Plants ¹

^a Western Cotton Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Phoenix, Arizona 85040

The induction of nitrate reductase activity in root tips of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) was regulated by several amino acids and by ammonium. Glycine, glutamine, and asparagine strongly inhibited induction of activity by nitrate and also decreased growth of sterile-cultured roots on a nitrate medium. Methionine, serine, and alanine weakly inhibited induction, and 11 other amino acids had little or no effect. Ammonium also decreased induction in root tips, but was most effective only at pH 7 or higher. The optimum conditions for ammonium regulation of induction were identical to those for growth of sterile-cultured roots on ammonium as the sole nitrogen source. Aspartate and glutamate strongly stimulated induction, but several lines of evidence indicated that the mechanism of this response was different from that elicited by the other amino acids. The effects of amino acids on induction appeared to be independent of nitrate uptake.

In green shoot tissues, all attempts to demonstrate regulation of induction by amino acids failed. The great difference in observed responses of root and shoot to amino acids suggests that their nitrate reductase activities are regulated differently. Differential regulation of this enzyme is consistent with the responses of root and shoot nitrate reductase activity to nitrate.

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