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Plant Physiology 77:718-721 (1985)
© 1985 American Society of Plant Biologists

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p-Fluorophenylalanine-Induced Restriction of Ion Uptake and Assimilation by Maize Roots 1

M. A. Morgan2, Richard J. Volk and William A. Jackson

Department of Soil Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7619

Roots of decapitated maize seedlings (Zea mays L.) were exposed for 12 hours to 1.0 millimolar KNO3 (98.5 atom per cent 15N) in the presence and absence (control) of 0.1 millimolar p-fluorophenylalanine (FPA), an analog of the amino acid phenylalanine. FPA decreased nitrate uptake but had little effect on potassium uptake. In contrast, accumulation of both ions in the xylem exudate was greatly restricted. The proportion of reduced 15N-nitrogen that was translocated at each time was also restricted by FPA. These observations are interpreted as indicating that synthesis of functional protein(s) is required for nitrate uptake and for transport of potassium, nitrate, and reduced-15N from xylem parenchyma cells into xylem elements. The effect of FPA on nitrate reduction is less clear. Initially, FPA limited nitrate reduction more than nitrate uptake, but by 8 hours the cumulative reduction of entering nitrate was similar (~35%) in both control and FPA-treated roots. A relationship between nitrate uptake and nitrate reduction is implied. It is suggested that nitrate influx regulates the proportion of nitrate reductase in the active state, and thereby regulates concurrent nitrate reduction in decapitated maize seedlings.

2 Present address: Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, University College, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

1 Supported by National Science Foundation Grant PCM 81-18661. Paper No. 9312 of the Journal Series of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, Raleigh, NC.






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