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  • Nitrogen fixation  (29)
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    Infectivity and acetylene reduction of diazotrophic rhizosphere bacteria in wheat (Triticum aestivum) seedlings under gnotobiotic conditions (1985)
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    Biology and fertility of soils 1 (1985), S. 123-129 
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    ISSN: 1432-0789
    Keywords: Rhizosphere bacteria ; Nitrogenase activity ; Triticum aestivum ; Inoculation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Geosciences , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Wheat seedlings were inoculated with rhizosphere nitrogen-fixing bacteria and grown gnotobiotically for 15 days. The growth medium consisted of semisolid agar with or without plant nutrients. The bacteria, isolated from roots of field-grown wheat, were three unidentified Gram-negative rods (A1, A2, E1), one Enterobacter agglomerans (C1) and two Bacillus polymyxa (B1, B2). A strain of Azospirillum brasilense (USA 10) was included for comparison. Nitrogenase activity (acetylene reduction activity, ARA) was tested on intact plants after 8 and 15 days of growth. In semisolid agar without plant nutrients, five isolates showed ARA of 0.01–0.9 nmol C2H4 plant−1 h−1, while the two strains of B. polymyxa had higher ARA of 3.3–10.6 nmol C2H4 plant−1 h−1. Plant development was not affected by inoculation with bacteria, except that inoculation with B. polymyxa resulted in shorter shoots and lower root weight. Transmission electronmicroscopy of roots revealed different degrees of infection. A. brasilense, A1 and A2, occurred mainly in the mucilage on the root surface and between outer epidermal cells (low infectivity). B. polymyxa strains and E1 were found in and between epidermal cells (intermediate infectivity) while E. agglomerans invaded the cortex and was occasionally found within the stele (high infectivity).
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    Evidence for adenylylation/deadenylylation control of the glutamine synthetases of Rhodospirillum tenue and Rhodocyclus purpureus (1985)
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    Archives of microbiology 142 (1985), S. 103-108 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Phototrophic bacteria ; Rhodospirillaceae ; Glutamine synthetase ; Nitrogen metabolism ; Nitrogen fixation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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    Notes: Abstract The phylogenetically related phototrophic bacteria Rhodospirillum tenue and Rhodocyclus purpureus modulate activity of their glutamine synthetases by adenylylation/deadenylylation. Evidence for covalent modification includes the inhibitory effect of Mg2+ on the activity of glutamine synthetase extracted from cells of either species grown on excess ammonia, and the lack of Mg2+ inhibition of activity of the enzyme isolated from N2-(R. tenue) or glutamine (R. purpureus)-grown cells. In addition, snake venom phosphodiesterase treatment of glutamine synthetase from either species grown on excess ammonia relieved Mg2+ inhibition of the enzyme (as measured via the γ-glutamyl transferase assay), and changed the cation specificity from Mn2+ to Mg2+ (in the biosynthetic assay).
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    Assimilation of exogenous and dinitrogen-derived13NH 4 + byAnabaena azollae separated fromAzolla caroliniana Willd (1985)
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    Archives of microbiology 142 (1985), S. 229-233 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Ammonium assimilation ; Excretion ; Anabaena azollae ; Azolla caroliniana ; Cyanobacteria ; Glutamine ; Glutamate formation ; Nitrogen fixation ; Symbiosis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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    Notes: Abstract Anabaena azollae was isolated fromAzolla caroliniana by the “gentle roller” method and differential centrifugation. Incubation of suchAnabaena preparations for 10 min with [13N]N2 resulted in the formation of four radioactive compounds; ammonium, glutamine, glutamate and alanine. Ammonium accounted for 66% of the total radioactivity recovered and 58% of the ammonium was in an extracellular fraction. Since essentially no extracellular13N-labeled organic compounds were found, it appears that ammonium is the compound most probably made available toAzolla during dinitrogen-dependent growth of the association. The kinetics of incorporation of exogenous13NH 4 + into glutamine and glutamate were characteristic of a precursor (glutamine)-product (glutamate) relationship and consistent with assimilation by the glutamine synthetase-glutamate synthase pathway. The results of experiments using the glutamine synthetase inhibitor, methionine sulfoximine, the glutamate synthase inhibitor, diazo-oxonorleucine, and increasing the ammonium concentration to greater than 1 mM, provided evidence for assimilation primarily by the glutamine synthetase-glutamate synthase pathway with little or no contribution from biosynthetic glutamate dehydrogenase. While showing that N2 fixation and NH 4 + assimilation were not tightly coupled metabolic processes in symbioticAnabaena, these results reflect a composite picture and do not indicate the extent to which ammonium assimilatory enzymes might be regulated in filaments associated with specific stages in theAzolla-Anabaena developmental profile.
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    Oxygen protection of nitrogenase in the aerobically nitrogen fixing, non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Oscillatoria sp. (1985)
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    Archives of microbiology 143 (1985), S. 72-76 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Oscillatoria ; Cyanobacteria ; Nitrogen fixation ; Oxygen protection of N2-ase
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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    Notes: Abstract Oscillatoria sp. strain 23 is a filamentous, non-heterocystous cyanobacterium that fixes nitrogen aerobically. Although, in this organism nitrogenase is inactivated by oxygen a high tolerance is observed. Up to a pO2 of 0.15 atm, oxygen does not have any measurable effects on acetylene reduction. Higher concentrations of oxygen inhibited the activity to a relatively high degree. Evidence for two mechanisms of oxygen protection of nitrogenase in this cyanobacterium was obtained. A high rate of synthesis of nitrogenase may allow the organism to maintain a certain amount of active enzyme under aerobic conditions. Secondly, a switch off/on mechanism may reversibly convert the active enzyme into a non-active form which is insensitive to oxygen inactivation after a sudden and short-term exposure to high oxygen concentrations. It is conceived that these mechanisms in addition to a temporal separation of nitrogen fixation from oxygenic photosynthesis sufficiently explain the regulation process of aerobic nitrogen fixation in this organism.
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    Nitrogenase activity in the non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Oscillatoria sp. grown under alternating light-dark cycles (1985)
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    Archives of microbiology 143 (1985), S. 67-71 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Oscillatoria ; Cyanobacteria ; Nitrogen fixation ; Light-dark cycles
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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    Notes: Abstract The non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Oscillatoria sp. strain 23 fixes nitrogen under aerobic conditions. If nitrate-grown cultures were transferred to a medium free of combined nitrogen, nitrogenase was induced within about 1 day. The acetylene reduction showed a diurnal variation under conditions of continuous light. Maximum rates of acetylene reduction steadily increased during 8 successive days. When grown under alternating light-dark cycles, Oscillatoria sp. fixes nitrogen preferably in the dark period. For dark periods longer than 8 h, nitrogenase activity is only present during the dark period. For dark periods of 8 h and less, however, nitrogenase activity appears before the beginning of the dark period. This is most pronounced in cultures grown in a 20 h light – 4 h dark cycle. In that case, nitrogenase activity appears 3–4 h before the beginning of the dark period. According to the light-dark regime applied, nitrogenase activity was observed during 8–11 h. Oscillatoria sp. grown under 16 h light and 8 h dark cycle, also induced nitrogenase at the usual point of time, when suddenly transferred to conditions of continuous light. The activity appeared exactly at the point of time where the dark period used to begin. No nitrogenase activity was observed when chloramphenicol was added to the cultures 3 h before the onset of the dark period. This observation indicated that for each cycle, de novo nitrogenase synthesis is necessary.
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    Regulation of nitrogenase activity by covalent modification in Chromatium vinosum (1985)
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    Archives of microbiology 141 (1985), S. 40-43 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Nitrogenase ; Nitrogen fixation ; Regulation ; Photosynthetic bacteria ; Chromatium ; Ammonia switch off
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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    Notes: Abstract Nitrogenase in Chromatium vinosum was rapidly, but reversibly inhibited by NH 4 + . Activity of the Fe protin component of nitrogenase required both Mn2+ and activating enzyme. Activating enzyme from Rhodospirillum rubrum could replace Chromatium chromatophores in activating the Chromatium Fe protein, and conversely, a protein fraction prepared from Chromatium chromatophores was effective in activating R. rubrum Fe protein. Inactive Chromatium Fe protein contained a peptide covalently modified by a phosphate-containing molecule, which migrated the same in SDS-polyacrylamide gels as the modified subunit of R. rubrum Fe protein. In sum, these observations suggest that Chromatium nitrogenase activity is regulated by a covalent modification of the Fe protein in a manner similar to that of R. rubrum.
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    Electron donation to nitrogenase in heterocysts of cyanobacteria (1985)
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    Archives of microbiology 143 (1985), S. 185-191 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Heterocyst ; Pyruvate: ferredoxin oxidoreductase ; Nitrogen fixation ; Electron transport to nitrogenase ; Ferredoxin ; Cyanobacteria ; Anabaena cylindrica ; Anabaena variabilis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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    Notes: Abstract Various electron donors were found to stimulate C2H2 reduction (N2 fixation) by isolated heterocysts from Anabaena variabilis and Anabaena cylindrica. Intermediates of glycolysis and the tricarboxylic acid cycle as well as unphosphorylated sugars like glucose, fructose and erythrose were among these electron donors. The transfer of electrons from donors like H2, NADH, glyoxylate and glycollate was strictly light-dependent, whereas others like NADPH or pyruvate plus coenzyme A supported C2H2 reduction also in the dark. In all cases, the overall activity was enhanced by light. The stimulation by light was more distinct with heterocysts from A. variabilis than with heterocysts from A. cylindrica. The present communication establishes that pyruvate supports C2H2 reduction by heterocysts from either A. variabilis or A. cylindrica with rates comparable to those with other electron donors. Pyruvate could, however, support C2H2 reduction only in the presence of coenzyme A, and the concentrations of both coenzyme A and pyruvate were crucial. A pyruvate-dependent reduction of ferredoxin by extracts from heterocysts was recorded spectrophotometrically. Glyoxylate, which is an inhibitor of thiamine pyrophosphate-dependent decarboxylations, inhibited pyruvate-dependent C2H2 reduction. This result supports the conclusion that pyruvate is metabolised by pyruvate: ferredoxin oxidoreductase in heterocysts. High concentrations of pyruvate and other electron donors inhibited C2H2 reduction which suggests that nitrogenase activity in heterocysts may be controlled by the availability of electron donors.
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    Derivatives of Rhizobium meliloti strains carrying a plasmid of Rhizobium leguminosarum specifying hydrogen uptake and pea-specific symbiotic functions (1985)
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    Archives of microbiology 140 (1985), S. 352-357 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Alfalfa ; Conjugation ; Cross inoculation ; Host specificity ; Hydrogen uptake ; Nodulation ; Nitrogen fixation ; Rhizobium ; Plasmids
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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    Notes: Abstract pIJ1008, a Rhizobium leguminosarum plasmid which determines hydrogen uptake ability and symbiotic functions in pea was transferable to three of seven natural isolates of R. meliloti tested. In these three strains, pIJ1008 was maintained stably with the respective sym megaplasmid indigenous to each R. meliloti strain. These strains carrying both plasmids nodulated alfalfa but not pea. By reisolation and examination of the strains from alfalfa nodule tissue, it was shown that pIJ1008 continued to be maintained but that pea-nodulation ability was suppressed. In one strain of R. meliloti which carries a 200 kb cryptic plasmid (in addition to a megaplasmid), the transfer and selection for pIJ1008 resulted in the loss of the cryptic plasmid. In three separate plant growth experiments, alfalfa nodules induced by each of the R. meliloti strain carrying both sym plasmids were assayed for hydrogen uptake activity. The average activity was 40-, 3.5-and 2-fold higher than with the respective pIJ1008-free strains. However, this higher activity was not accompanied by an increase in plant biomass or nitrogen content of shoots.
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    Expression ofKlebsiella pneumoniae nif genes inProteus mirabilis (1985)
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    Archives of microbiology 142 (1985), S. 289-294 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Proteus mirabilis ; Nitrogen fixation ; nif genes ; nif plasmids ; Klebsiella pneumoniae
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    Notes: Abstract Self-transmissible plasmids carryinghis andnif genes fromKlebsiella pneumoniae have been introduced into threehis mutants ofProteus mirabilis: strains 5006-1, WR19 and WR20. Expression ofhis by the transconjugants was unequivocal, if slightly temperature-sensitive, but none was Nif+ when tested for acetylene reduction in anaerobic glucose medium using inocula from rich or glucose-minimal aerobic agar cultures. Succinate or pyruvate in place of glucose, low glucose, lower temperature or elevated Na2MoO4 did not allownif expression and no nitrogenase MoFe-protein peptide was detected immunologically after exposure to conditions in which diazotrophic enterobacteria, normal or genetically constructed, derepressnif. One strain,P. mirabilis WR19, carrying thehis nif Kmr plasmid pMF250 was examined in detail. Thenif activator genenifA was introduced on the plasmid pCK1. Such derivatives remained Nif- when tested, after aerobic growth on rich agar media, with normal or low glucose, with succinate or with elevated Mo. However, pre-conditioning by aerobic growth on glucose-minimal agar led to subsequent anaerobic expression ofnif in glucose medium from pMF250 in WR19 carrying pCK1. NH 4 + or proline could serve as N-source in the glucose-minimal agar. Maximum activity was about 5% of that ofK. pneumoniae in our assay conditions. Material cross-reacting with anti-serum to the nitrogenase MoFe protein was formed. Nitrogenase activity was not ‘switched off’ by NH 4 + .P. mirabilis WR19 (pCK1) showed NH 4 + -constitutive temperature-sensitive kanamycin resistance (anif-related phenotype of this plasmid) in aerobic glucose minimal medium. Expression ofnif inP. mirabilis WR19 (pCK1, pMF250) was NH 4 + -repressible despite the constitutivenifA character of pCK1 and introduction of thentrA + plasmid pMM17 did not alter this phenotype. However, pCK1 did not give rise to NH 4 + -constitutive diazotrophy in the wild-typeK. pneumoniae M5al. A construct of WR19 carrying pMF250 and constitutiventrC plasmid (pMD45) remained Nif- even after pre-growth on glucose-minimal media. We conclude (a) thatP. mirabilis forms a gene product functionally equivalent to that ofntrA inK. pneumoniae, (b) that it forms no functional equivalent of thentrC product in our growth conditions. The need for pre-conditioning on aerobic glucose media remains perplexing.
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    Concurrent evolution of nitrogenase genes and 16S rRNA in Rhizobium species and other nitrogen fixing bacteria (1985)
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    Archives of microbiology 142 (1985), S. 342-348 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Evolution ; Nif genes ; Nitrogen fixation ; Nitrogenase ; Nucleotide sequence ; Phylogeny ; Rhizobium ; 16S rRNA cataloguing
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    Notes: Abstract It was known that nitrogenase genes and proteins are well conserved even though they are present in a large variety of phylogenetically diverse nitrogen fixing bacteria. This has lead to the speculation, among others, that nitrogen fixation (nif) genes were spread by lateral gene transfer relatively late in evolution. Here we report an attempt to test this hypothesis. We had previously established the complete nucleotide sequences of the three nitrogenase genes from Bradyrhizobium japonicum, and have now analyzed their homologies (or the amino acid sequence homologies of their gene products) with corresponding genes (and proteins) from other nitrogen fixing bacteria. There was a considerable sequence conservation which certainly reflects the strict structural requirements of the nitrogenase iron-sulfur proteins for catalytic functioning. Despite this, the sequences were divergent enough to classify them into an evolutionary scheme that was conceptually not different from the phylogenetic positions, based on 16S rRNA homology, of the species or genera harboring these genes. Only the relation of nif genes of slow-growing rhizobia (to which B. japonicum belongs) and fast-growing rhizobia was unexpectedly distant. We have, therefore, performed oligonucleotide cataloguing of their 16S rRNA, and found that there was indeed only a similarity of S AB=0.53 between fast- and slowgrowing rhizobia. In conclusion, the results suggest that nif genes may have evolved to a large degree in a similar fashion as the bacteria which carry them. This interpretation would speak against the idea of a recent lateral distribution of nif genes among microorganisms.
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    Regulation of nitrogenase levels in Anabaena sp. ATCC 33047 and other filamentous cyanobacteria (1985)
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    Archives of microbiology 141 (1985), S. 105-111 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Ammonia ; Anabaena ; Cyanobacteria ; Nitrogen fixation ; Nitrogenase ; Nostoc
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    Notes: Abstract Incubation in the dark of photoautotrophically grown N2-fixing heterocystous cyanobacteria leads to a loss of nitrogenase activity. Original levels of nitrogenase activity are rapidly regained upon re-illumination of the filaments, in a process dependent on de novo protein synthesis. Ammonia, acting indirectly through some of its metabolic derivatives, inhibits the light-promoted development of nitrogenase activity in filaments of Anabaena sp. ATCC 33047 and several other cyanobacteria containing mature heterocysts. The ammonia-mediated control system is also operative in N2-fixing filaments in the absence of any added source of combined nitrogen, with the ammonia resulting from N2-fixation already partially inhibiting full expression of nitrogenase. High nitrogenase levels, about two-fold higher than those in normal N2-fixing Anabaena sp. ATCC 33047, are found in cell suspensions which have been treated with the glutamine synthetase inhibitor l-methionine-d,l-sulfoximine or subjected to nitrogen starvation. Filaments treated in either way are insensitive to the ammonia-promoted inhibition of nitrogenase development, although this insensitivity is only transitory for the nitrogen-starved filaments, which become ammonia-sensitive once they regain their normal nitrogen status.
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    Ethylenediamine uptake and metabolism in the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis (1985)
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    Archives of microbiology 141 (1985), S. 244-248 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Ammonia analogues ; Anabaena variabilis ; Cyanobacteria ; Ethylenediamine ; Nitrogen fixation
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    Notes: Abstract The cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis showed a pH dependent uptake of ethylenediamine. No uptake of ethylenediamine was detected at pH 7.0. At higher pH values (e.g. pH 8.0 and pH 9.0) accumulation did occur and was attributed to diffusion of uncharged ethylenediamine in response to a pH gradient. A biphasic pattern of uptake was observed at these higher pH values. Treatment with l-methionine-d,l-sulphoximine (MSX) to inactivate glutamine synthetase (GS) inhibited the second slower phase of uptake without any significant alteration of the initial uptake. Therefore for sustained uptake, metabolism of ethylenediamine via GS was required. NH 4 + did not alter the uptake of ethylenediamine. Ethylenediamine was converted in the second phase of uptake to an analogue of glutamine which could not be detected in uptake experiments at pH 7.0 or in uptake experiments at pH 9.0 following pretreatment of cells with MSX. Ethylenediamine treatment inhibited nitrogenase activity and this inhibition was greatest at high pH values.
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    Denitrification and nitrogen fixation by Azospirillum (1985)
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    Archives of microbiology 141 (1985), S. 364-370 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Nitrogen fixation ; Denitrification ; Associative symbiosis ; Acetylene reduction ; Nitrous oxide formation ; Azospirillum
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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    Notes: Abstract A model system is described where Azospirillum and germinated wheat seeds were grown in association for a week and then assayed for nitrogen fixation (C2H2-reduction) and denitrification (N2O-formation) activities. The association performed C2H2-reduction and N2O-formation under microaerobic conditions. Both activities were measurable after already 3–5 h of incubation with substantial rates and were strictly dependent on the presence of both plants and bacteria. During the week of the growth of the association, the bacteria had lived exclusively from the carbon compounds supplied by the roots of the plants. C2H2-reduction activity by the association was more or less the same with all the Azospirillum brasilense strains, but lower with A. lipoferum and with the A. amazonense strains tested. Two nitrogenase negative mutants of Azospirillum brasilense showed virtually no activity in the association. C2H2-reduction activity was strongly dependent on the growth temperature of the association. Denitrification (N2O-formation) was high also at higher temperatures and at pH-values in the medium around 7.8 but not at neutrality and was strictly dependent on nitrate. The Azospirillum strain used strongly determined the rate of the N2O-formation in the association. It is suggested that Azospirillum may be beneficial to crops particularly under tropical conditions.
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    Fixation of [13N]N2 and transfer of fixed nitrogen in the Anthoceros-Nostoc symbiotic association (1985)
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    Planta 164 (1985), S. 406-414 
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    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Ammonia/ammonium (assimilation, excretion) ; Anthoceros ; Bryophyta ; Cyanobacteria ; Nitrogen fixation ; Nostoc ; Symbiosis
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    Notes: Abstract The initial product of fixation of [13N]N2 by pure cultures of the reconstituted symbiotic association between Anthoceros punctatus L. and Nostoc sp. strain ac 7801 was ammonium; it accounted for 75% of the total radioactivity recovered in methanolic extracts after 0.5 min and 14% after 10 min of incubation. Glutamine and glutamate were the primary organic products synthesized from [13N]N2 after incubation times of 0.5–10 min. The kinetics of labeling of these two amino acids were characteristic of a precursor (glutamine) and product (glutamate) relationship. Results of inhibition experiments with methionine sulfoximine (MSX) and diazo-oxonorleucine were also consistent with the assimilation of N2-derived NH 4 + by Anthoceros-Nostoc through the sequential activities of glutamine synthetase (EC 6.3.1.2) and glutamate synthase (EC 1.4.7.1), with little or no assimilation by glutamate dehydrogenase (EC 1.3.1.3). Isolated symbiotic Nostoc assimilated exogenous 13NH 4 + into glutamine and glutamate and their formation was inhibited by MSX, indicating operation of the glutamine synthetase-glutamate synthase (GS-GOGAT) pathway: However, relative to free-living cultures, isolated symbiotic Nostoc assimilated 80% less exogenous ammonium into glutamine and glutamate, implying that symbiotic Nostoc could assimilate only a fraction of N2-derived NH 4 + . This implication was tested by using Anthoceros associations reconstituted with wild-type or MSX-resistant strains of Nostoc incubated with [13N]N2 in the presence of MSX. The results of these experiments indicated that, in situ, symbiotic Nostoc assimilated about 10% of the N2-derived NH 4 + and that NH 4 + was made available to Anthoceros tissue where it was apparently assimilated by the GS-GOGAT pathway. Since less than 1% of the fixed N2 was lost to the suspension medium, it appears that transfer of NH 4 + from symbiont to host tissue was very efficient in this extracellular symbiotic association.
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    Chromosomal localization of structural genes and regulators in wheat by 2D electrophoresis of ditelosomic lines (1985)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 71 (1985), S. 31-38 
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    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: Triticum aestivum ; 2D electrophoresis ; Gene localization ; Homoeologous genes ; Genetic regulation
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    Notes: Summary Among the 782 spots observed in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of denatured proteins from etiolated wheat shoots, 185 were found to be variable between the euploid and 26 ditelosomic lines of ‘Chinese Spring’. Thirty-five structural genes were located on 17 chromosome arms. Numerous intensity changes showing alterations in protein levels were observed and led to the following statements: 1) regulators are frequently found and can be assigned for a same polypeptide to various chromosome arms; 2) for most polypeptides homoeologous arms do not manifest similar effects; 3) nevertheless, when affecting the same polypeptide, homoeologous arms display in most cases identical regulatory effects; 4) gene dosage compensation is observed in only one out of four homoeoallelic situations.
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    Intrachromosomal mapping of the nucleolar organiser region relative to three marker loci on chromosome 1B of wheat (Triticum aestivum) (1985)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 69 (1985), S. 263-270 
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    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: Intrachromosomal mapping ; Nucleolar organiser region ; Triticum aestivum
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    Notes: Summary Restriction enzyme digestion of the ribosomal RNA genes of the nucleolar organisers of wheat has revealed fragment length polymorphisms for the nucleolar organiser on chromosome 1B and the nucleolar organiser on 6B. Variation between genotypes for these regions has also been demonstrated. This variation has been exploited to determine the recombination frequency between the physically defined nucleolar organiser on 1B (designatedNor1) and other markers; two loci,Glu-B1 andGli-B1 which code for endosperm storage proteins andRf3, a locus restoring fertility to male sterility conditioned byT. timopheevi cytoplasm.Gli-B1 andRf3 were located on the short-arm satellite but recombine with the nucleolar organiser giving a gene order ofNor1 — Rf3 — Gli-B1. Glu-B1 is located on the long arm of 1B but shows relatively little recombination withNor1, which is, in physical distance, distal on the short arm. This illustrates the discrepancy between map distance and physical distance on wheat chromosomes due to the distal localisation of chiasmata. The recombination betweenNor1 andRf3 indicates that, contrary to previous suggestions, fertility restoration is not a property of the nucleolar organiser but of a separate locus.
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    Comparative genetic analyses of metric traits using diallel and factorial mating designs in bread wheat (1985)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 69 (1985), S. 325-328 
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    Keywords: Line × tester analysis ; Triticum aestivum ; Gene action ; Combining ability ; Mating designs
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    Notes: Summary For studying the inheritance of metric traits, diallel cross and factorial mating designs are commonly used. Since factorial mating design is less restrictive in crossing plans, the genetic information drawn from it was compared with that from a diallel cross. The comparison was made using graphical, genetic components and combining ability analyses for grain yield, grain weight and spike length in a field experiment of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Analyses were made on a nine parent diallel cross and a 4 ♀ × 5 ♂ factorial mating design which was sampled from the diallel cross. In general, there was a high degree of agreement between the results obtained from factorial mating design and diallel cross analyses showing thereby that the former provides almost equivalent genetic information to the latter.
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    Genetic control of endosperm proteins in wheat (1985)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 69 (1985), S. 583-589 
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    Keywords: Common wheat ; Triticum aestivum ; Electrophoresis ; Endosperm proteins ; Glutenins ; Gliadins ; Genetic control
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    Notes: Summary Total endosperm proteins extracted from both several common wheat cultivars and some intervarietal substitution lines derived from them were fractionated according to their molecular weight in a high resolution one-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The four donor cultivars and the recipient one — ‘Chinese Spring’, possessed differentially migrating protein bands in the fractions of high molecular weight (HMW) glutenins and gliadins. Several of these bands were identified for the first time in this study. By utilizing intervarietal substitution lines the control of the HMW glutenins and gliadins by chromosomes of homoeologous group 1 was either reaffirmed or, for the new bands, established. Several HMW gliadin subunits showed a considerable variation in their staining intensity in the intervarietal substitution lines indicating that their expression was dependent on the genetic background.
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    Factors affecting the induction of pollen plants of intergeneric hybrids of Triticum aestivum X Triticum-Agropyron (1985)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 70 (1985), S. 294-299 
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    Keywords: Anther culture ; Pollen callus (plantlet) ; Induction frequency ; Triticum aestivum ; Agropyron glaucum
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    Notes: Summary Experimental results showed that the use of potato extract as a basic component of culture medium had a promoting effect on producing calli in anther culture of the intergeneric hybrids of Triticum aestivum × Triticum-Agropyron (intermediate type). The induction frequencies of pollen callus on the Potato-II medium containing potato extract as the main component was much higher than that found on N6 and W5 media. The induction frequencies of pollen callus and green plantlets in four intergeneric hybrid material inoculated at the late-uninucleate pollen stage were all higher than those inoculated at the mid-uninucleate stage. Appropriate increases in culture temperature significantly increased pollen callus induction frequencies of the intergeneric hybrids. The genotype and physiological state of anther donor plants also influenced pollen callus and green plantlet induction frequencies.
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    Structural homology of endosperm high molecular weight glutenin subunits of common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) (1985)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 70 (1985), S. 634-642 
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    Keywords: Hexaploid wheat ; Triticum aestivum ; Glutenins ; Electrophoresis ; Amino acid analysis ; Peptide mapping
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    Notes: Summary Several high molecular weight endosperm glutenin subunits, coded by genes located on chromosomes 1A, 1B and 1D of common wheat, Triticum aestivum L. em. Thell., were isolated from excised gel segments and subjected to amino acid analysis and peptide mapping; the latter was carried out following a limited digestion with trypsin, chymotrypsin or Staphylococcus aureus — V8 protease. Generally, all high molecular weight glutenins had a similar amino acid composition but several significant differences were observed in some of them. Both analyses revealed that the structural similarity among the various subunits was related to the homology of the genes coding them: subunits coded by homoalleles, i.e., different alleles of the same gene, were most similar; those coded by homoeoalleles, i.e., alleles of homoeologous genes, were less similar; whereas subunits coded either by alleles of different genes of the same gene cluster, or by nonhomoeoalleles of homoeologous clusters, were the least similar. Several small peptides derived from protease digestion of various subunits had a higher than expected staining intensity indicating that small peptide repeats may be interspersed within the glutenin subunits. The evolutionary course of the high molecular weight glutenins is discussed.
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    Nucleolus organizer competition in Triticum aestivum — Aegilops umbellulata chromosome addition lines (1985)
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 71 (1985), S. 278-283 
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    Keywords: Nucleolar competition ; Amphiplasty ; Ag-NORs ; Addition lines ; Triticum aestivum ; Aegilops umbellulata
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    Notes: Summary The nucleolar organizer activity of wheat (Triticum aestivum, AABBDD) and Aegilops umbellulata (UU) chromosomes have been analyzed in the complete set of the chromosome addition lines by using a highly reproducible silver-staining procedure. Chromosomes 1U and 5U produce the partial inactivation of wheat nucleolar organizer chromosomes 6B, 1B and 5D. The chromosomes D and G from Ae. umbellulata, which are not SAT-chromosomes, seem to specifically influence the activity of wheat NORs. The predominant status of the U genome with respect to nucleolar competition in the Triticeae is confirmed.
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    Ultrastructural specialization for ureide production in uninfected cells of soybean root nodules (1985)
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    Protoplasma 125 (1985), S. 1-12 
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    Keywords: Glycine max ; Root nodule ultrastructure ; Nitrogen fixation ; Peroxisomes (microbodies) ; Uninfected (interstitial) cells ; Ureides
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    Notes: Summary Ultrastructural studies were conducted on root nodules of soybean (Glycine max) inoculated as seeds withRhizobium japonicum. The development of the large peroxisomes and abundant tubular endoplasmic reticulum (ER) characteristic of the uninfected interstitial cells was followed during nodule growth and maturation. Quantitative data on differences between the uninfected and infected cells in volumes and numbers of peroxisomes, plastids and mitochondria were analyzed statistically. The peroxisomes are 60 times greater in volume per unit cytoplasm in the uninfected cells than the small presumptive peroxisomes in the infected cells. Plastids are about equal in volume in the two types of cells. Mitochondria have 4 × the volume and 3 × the number of profiles per unit cytoplasm in the infected cells than in the uninfected. The observations are discussed in relation to published evidence that several enzymes involved in ureide production are localized in organelles of the uninfected cells. The uninfected cells are viewed as essential components in the symbiotic relationship between host and bacterium.
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    Ultrastructural ontogeny of leaf cavity trichomes inAzolla implies a functional role in metabolite exchange (1985)
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    Protoplasma 129 (1985), S. 10-27 
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    Keywords: Azolla ; Anabaena ; Symbiosis ; Nitrogen fixation ; Trichome ; Transfer cell ; Ontogeny ; Ultrastructure ; Gland ; Metabolite exchange
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    Notes: Summary Anabaena azollae is associated with two types of multicellular epidermal trichomes inAzolla leaf cavities, the simple and branched hairs. The observation of transfer cell ultrastructure in some hair cells led to speculation that the cavity hairs might participate in metabolite exchange between the symbionts. The developmental ontogeny of cavity trichomes is described here, using transmission electron microscopy, with a goal of improving our understanding of possible functions of these structures in the symbiosis. The observations have established that all cells of simple and branched hairs develop the structural characteristics of transfer cells, but not simultaneously. Rather, there is an acropetal succession of transfer cell ultrastructure beginning in terminal cells, moving to body cells where present, and ending in stalk cells. The transfer cell stage is followed immediately by senescence in all hair cells. The timing of transfer cell differentiation, considered together with information from other studies, suggests that branched hairs may be involved in exchange of fixed nitrogen between the symbionts, while simple hairs may participate in exchange of fixed carbon fromAzolla toAnabaena.
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    Transmission of somaclonal variation in wheat (1985)
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    Euphytica 34 (1985), S. 525-537 
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    Keywords: Triticum aestivum ; bread wheat ; somaclonal variation ; chromosomal aberrations ; wheat breeding
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    Notes: Summary Transmission of somaclonal variation was studied in callus derived (SC1) plants of wheat, Triticum aestivum L. Second (SC2), third (SC3) and fourth (SC4) generations were compared with those obtained from embryo culture (E1-E4). SC2 generation had significantly lower grain yield (−37.3%), reduced thousand kernel weight (−7.8%) and shorter height (−2.1%) than that of E2, and included 5.7% seed-sterile and 15.0% partially seed-sterile plants. SC3 generation showed reduced yield (−12.6%), lower thousand kernel weight (−4.9%) and shorter plant height (−1.9%) than E3 generation. SC4 progeny of a short height, partially sterile SC1 variant included aberrant plants: a haploid, few aneuploids, mixoploids, some showing multiploidy, spindle abnormalities, multivalents, bridges and fragments, and tillers having supernumerary spikes with branched rachis. Somaclonal variation resulted from genome instability in callus, and likely involved transposable elements.
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    The physiology of variation in the time of ear emergence among wheat varieties from different regions of the world (1985)
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    Euphytica 34 (1985), S. 559-571 
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    Keywords: Triticum aestivum ; wheat ; ear emergence ; number of leaves ; number of spikelets ; photoperiod ; vernalization ; geographical distribution
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    Notes: Summary Differences in response to photoperiod and vernalization and genetic variation independent of photoperiod and vernalization (earliness per se), affecting time of ear emergence of wheat, were identified in controlled environment experiments with 33 varieties of diverse geographical origin. The results were compared with an analysis of time of ear emergence of 10409 T. aestivum accessions from the USDA Small Grain Collection grown from autumn sowings in Pendleton, Oregon, and spring sowings in Fargo, North Dakota. The effect of differences in photoperiod and vernalization sensitivity on time of ear emergence was similar to the effect of earliness per se, both under controlled environment conditions and in the field. Most of the accessions from low latitude regions reached ear emergence rapidly owing to their insensitivity to photoperiod and vernalization and earliness per se factors accelerating ear emergence. Lateness was common among accessions from Northern Europe, Afghanistan and Turkey, which was due to sensitivity to photoperiod and vernalization, and to earliness per se factors delaying ear emergence. The physiological basis of earliness per se is discussed.
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    Plant regeneration from immature inflorescence callus cultures of wheat, rye and triticale (1985)
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    Euphytica 34 (1985), S. 153-159 
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    Keywords: Triticum aestivum ; wheat ; Secale cereale ; rye ; Triticosecale ; callus culture
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    Notes: Summary Callus cultures were initiated from inflorescence explants of wheat, rye and triticale on MS medium supplemented with 2 mgl-1 2,4-D+5% CW or 2 mgl-1 2,4-D+0.5 mgl-1 BA. On transfer of the cultures to medium supplemented with 15% CW+0.2 mgl-1 NAA or 1 mgl-1 BA+0.1 mgl-1 IAA, shoot buds and embryoids were produced. Full fledged plantlets obtained on MS medium supplemented with NAA were transferred to the field. Cytological analysis showed the plants to be diploid. However, the regenerated plantlets were shorter, produced fewer tillers and had lower fertility compared to the control.
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    A gene for hybrid necrosis in an inbred line of rye (Secale cereale L.) (1985)
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    Euphytica 34 (1985), S. 207-211 
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    Keywords: Triticum aestivum ; wheat ; Secale cereale ; rye ; hybrid necrosis ; intergeneric cross
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    Notes: Summary An inbred line of rye (Secale cereale L.) has been found to carry a gene for hybrid necrosis. This gene was detected in crosses with a highly crossable wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotype which carries the gene Ne2. This appears to be the first report of a gene for hybrid necrosis being present in the rye genome.
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    Aneuploidy in semi dwarf wheat varieties (1985)
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    Euphytica 34 (1985), S. 317-327 
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    Keywords: Triticum aestivum ; bread wheat ; aneuploidy ; semi dwarfness
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    Notes: Summary Tall varietal impurities occurring in a number of new semi-dwarf winters wheats carrying the Norin 10 dwarfing genes Rht1 or Rht2 are causing problems at seed certification. Cytological analysis of such impurities from three varieties shows they are aneuploids and are mainly monosomic (2n=41) for chromosomes carrying semi-dwarfing genes. Because Rht1 and Rht2 act as suppressors of height, their reduced dosage as in monosomics, produces plants considerably taller than in the euploid condition.
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    Reciprocal monosomic analysis of frost resistance on chromosome 5A in wheat (1985)
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    Euphytica 34 (1985), S. 367-370 
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    Keywords: Triticum aestivum ; wheat ; frost resistance ; chromosome 5A ; reciprocal monosomic analysis ; allelic variation ; substitution line
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    Notes: Summary F2 monosomic analysis and the direct comparisons between aneuploid series from different varieties of wheat suggest the likelihood of allelic variation. It is impossible however, from these studies to prove unequivocally that allelic variation exists. Some effects can be due to chromosome dosage rather than allelic variation. This disadvantage was overcome by using reciprocal monosomic analysis to study the genetic control of frost resistance on chromosome 5A in wheat. Data support the previous results obtained by F2 monosomic and substitution analysis. The chromosome 5A has been shown to be the one which carries the major allelic differences that distinguish wheat varieties Chinese Spring, Rannyaya 12 and Mironovskaya 808 for frost resistance.
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    A reciprocal F1 monosomic analysis of the genetic control of time of ear emergence, number of leaves and number of spikelets in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) (1985)
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    Euphytica 34 (1985), S. 545-558 
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    Keywords: Triticum aestivum ; wheat ; reciprocal F1 monosomics ; ear emergence ; number of leaves ; number of spikelets ; photoperiod ; vernalization ; growth rate
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    Notes: Summary A reciprocal F1 monosomic analysis of chromosomal differences between Spica and Bersée was carried out under controlled environment conditions. Chromosomes associated with differences in days to ear emergence, number of leaves and number of spikelets were identified. The results indicated that chromosome 2B of Spica carries a photoperiod insensitivity allele at the Ppd 2 locus. Both Spica and Bersée appear to have a vernalization insensitity allele at the Vrn 2 locus on chromosome 5B. On chromosome 3A, 4B, 4D and 6B factors were found with major effects on earliness per se, diffeences in ear emergence and number of spikelets which were independent of photoperiod and vernalization. The possibility that these factors influence growth rate is discussed.
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    The genetics of auricle colour of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.): A review (1985)
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    Euphytica 34 (1985), S. 233-236 
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    Keywords: Triticum aestivum ; wheat ; auricle colour ; genetics ; instability of expression ; gene penetration
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    Notes: Summary Only a few publications deal with the genetics of auricle colour of wheat. They report that red pigmentation is conditioned by one dominant gene, symbolized Ra. Ra is present in Egyptian local wheat cultivars. My own research showed the great instability of this character.
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    Optimal regimes of selection for grain yield and harvest index in spring wheat (1985)
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    Euphytica 34 (1985), S. 625-640 
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    Keywords: Triticum aestivum ; bread wheat ; selection criteria ; harvest index ; grain yield ; hill plots ; genotype x environment interaction
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    Notes: Summary Alternative strategies of multi-site testing of advanced lines in the northern wheat belt of New South Wales have been evaluated, using genetic parameters for large plot grain yield and hill plot harvest index estimated from dryland and irrigated trials at regional sites during 1975–1981. The average pairwise genetic correlation of large plot grain yields recorded at different sites within years was 0.45±.03, with a mean repeatability within trials of 0.56±.05. Harvest index measured in 20-grain hill plots in 1978 showe genetic correlations of 0.98±.08 with plot yield at the same site, and 0.39±0.06 with plot yield assessed at other sites in the same year. The genetic correlation between harvest index in hill plots and total biological yield in large plots at the same site was 0.84±.13, the relationship showing no evidence of curvilinearity. Selection for harvest index in hill plots is therefore expected to lead to an increase in biological yield as well as grain yield in the breeding populations studied. Quantitative genetic theory suggests that the response to selection for grain yield can be increased by approximately 40% with an initial screening using hill plot harvest index at three sites instead of one, and reallocation of resources in the first stage of large plot yield assessment to include 6–8 sites, rather than dryland and irrigated trials at a single location.
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    Changes in relative growth rate with plant ontogeny in spring wheat genotypes grown as isolated plants (1985)
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    Euphytica 34 (1985), S. 833-847 
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    Keywords: Triticum aestivum ; wheat ; growth analysis ; relative growth rate ; selection
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    Notes: Summary For a better insight in the effect of wide spacing on the outcome of plant selection in spring wheat, the growth of free-grown individual plants was followed in time for each of 12 cultivars. As time proceeded, the cultivar differences for per-plant weight showed progressively less relation with those for seedling weight. At anthesis, the genetic correlation with seedling weight was still about 0.80, but at final harvest it was only 0.06. This contrasted with the genetic correlation between seedling weight and final biomass in closely planted mixtures which was on the average 0.77. The outcome of selection of genotypes in isolation is therefore expected to deviate substantially from that of selection in densely planted segregating populations where the differences in initial size tend to be maintained in time. The ranking of the varieties grown in isolation changed in time because of differences in relative growth rate (RGR). The genetic variance of RGR decreased much less with time than RGR itself. Late-flowering varieties showed the higher RGR so that these varieties improved their position in the ranking in isolation. Special attention is paid to the methodology of plant growth analysis in variety experiments and in estimating means and variances of RGR.
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    Betaine status in wheat in relation to nitrogen stress and to transient salinity stress (1985)
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    Plant and soil 85 (1985), S. 3-9 
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    Keywords: Catabolism ; Glycine betaine ; Salt tolerance ; Triticum aestivum
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    Notes: Summary Glycine betaine is readily accumulated in wheat (Triticum aestivum cv. Inia) shoots during periods of salinity stress. The ability of the plant to utilize betaine as a source of nitrogen remains unresolved. We, therefore, conducted solution culture experiments in a greenhouse to test the hypothesis that betaine is degraded in wheat shoots under conditions of severe nitrogen deficiency. Betaine concentrations increased in continuously salt stressed plants for only 17 days after salinity was imposed. After this period, concentrations (dry weight basis) decreased steadily until plants died 32 days later. Decreases in betaine concentration were also observed in treatments where salinity stress was removed. The rate of decrease in concentration was greatest in the N-free treatment. These decreases in betaine concentration were the result of dilution by plant growth. Betaine contents (μmol shoot−1) remained unchanged after removal of substrate nitrate. Therefore our results support the hypothesis that betaine is a stable end product of metabolism.
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    Modification of the salinity response of wheat by the genome ofElytrigia elongatum (1985)
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    Plant and soil 83 (1985), S. 327-330 
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    Keywords: Amphiploid ; Elytrigia ; Genome ; Salinity ; Triticum aestivum ; Wheat ; Wheatgrass
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    Notes: Summary Triticum aestivum cv. Chinese Spring wheat,Elytrigia elongatum (tall wheatgrass), and theTriticum-Elytrigia amphiploid were grown in complete nutrient culture containing, in addition, 0, 40, 80 and 120 mM NaCl. The 3 genotypes responded quite differently to increasing salinity; the Na concentration of wheat shoots increased in direct proportion to the increase in salinity of the external medium whereas the Elytrigia response was interpreted as showing high affinity for Na at low external Na (40 mM) but comparative exclusion of Na at high salinities (120 mM). In contrast, Na levels of the amphiploid were less than those of either wheat or Elytrigia under both low and high salinities. Thus the amphiploid behaved like wheat at 40 mM NaCl but more like Elytrigia at 120 mM NaCl because Na transport to the amphiploid shoot was restricted over the whole salinity range. The K concentration of the amphiploid shoot at high salinities was significantly greater than the K concentrations of either wheat or Elytrigia.
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    Effects on winter wheat seedling growth by toxin-producing rhizobacteria (1985)
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    Plant and soil 83 (1985), S. 399-409 
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    Keywords: Inhibitory bacteria ; Pseudomonads ; Root growth ; Triticum aestivum
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    Notes: Summary Root-colonizing pseudomonads capable of inhibiting seedling winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) root growth in an agar seedling bioassay also significantly inhibited wheat root growth in vermiculite; however, the inhibitory trait is quite labile in laboratory culturing. The extent of inhibition in both the agar and vermiculite medium depended on inoculum level. These pseudomonads were found to produce a toxin capable of inhibiting growth ofEscherichia coli C-la andBacillus subtilis. Field isolates that strongly inhibit growth of indicator bacteria also inhibited root growth. Toxin production by the bacteria appeared necessary for inhibition of root growth and indicator bacteria as toxin-negative (TOX−) mutants no longer inhibited either. Antibiosis towardsE. coli as well as wheat seedling root inhibition in agar was reversed by L-methionine, providing further evidence that a toxin, produced by these organisms, is involved in growth retardation.
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    Outdoor mass culture ofAzolla spp.: yields and efficiencies of nitrogen fixation (1985)
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    Plant and soil 86 (1985), S. 57-67 
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    Keywords: Azolla ; N2-fixing efficiency ; Nitrogen fixation
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    Notes: Summary The productivity of three species of Azolla (A. pinnata, A. filiculoides andA. caroliniana) in outdoor culture has been evaluated at different planting densities. The highest yields were obtained with biomass concentration ranging from 40 to 70g d.w. m−2. The mean productivity over a 90 days period (from May 10th to August 10th) ranged from 10g d.w. m−2 day−1 forA. filiculoides up to 11.5 g d.w. m−2 day−1 forA. caroliniana. The nitrogen content of the dried biomasses was 48.3 mg (g d.w.)−1 forA. pinnata, 51.5mg (g d.w.)−1 forA. filiculoides and 52.3 mg (g d.w.)−1 forA. caroliniana. Very little variations of the nitrogen content of the ferns during the experimental period were observed. The nitrogen-fixing efficiency of the Azolla-Anabaena azollae symbiosis grown in outdoor conditions was evaluated both by direct measurement of the amount of N2 fixed by the culture and by the C2H2-reduction and H2-evolution tests in an air atmosphere. These tests were performed outdoor under the same environmental conditions as the growing cultures. For all the species the ratios of C2H2-reduced to N2-fixed were unexpectedly low, ranging from 2.04 (A. pinnata) to 1.50 (A. caroliniana). The results suggest that the reliability of the C2H2-reduction assay, particularly when applied to complex biological N2-fixing systems, must be re-examined.
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    Drought resistance of wheat plants inoculated with vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae (1985)
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    Plant and soil 86 (1985), S. 369-378 
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    Keywords: Dry-matter accumulation ; Glomus deserticola ; Glomus fasciculatum ; Mycorrhizae ; Root growth ; Triticum aestivum
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    Notes: Summary Drought resistance of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) as influenced by two vesiculararbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi,Glomus fasciculatum 10 andGlomus deserticola 19, was evaluated. Soil columns 0.15 m diam. by 1.20 m length were used to reduce the influence of limited rooting space. With initial soil water at 0.5 MPa (0.145 kg kg−1), plants were subjected to low-level water stress throughout the experiment and severe water stress for 24 h at one (55 days after transplanting, Feekes scale 10.1) two (55 and 63 days, Feekes 10.1 and 10.2), or three (55, 63, and 70 days, Feekes 10.1, 10.1, and 10.2) periods. After each stress period, one set of plants was watered and grown to maturity without subsequent water stress. A second set of plants was harvested 1 week after stress.G. fasciculatum-inoculated plants harvested 7 days after stress at 55 days had greater leaf area and leaf, total plant, and root weight than non-VAM plants.G. deserticola-inoculated plants had greater leaf area and leaf weight than non-VAM plants. After stress at 55 and 63 days, leaf area, and leaf and total dry weight were again greater for VAM than for non-VAM plants. However, after stress at 55, 63, and 70 days, differences in aboveground biomass between VAM and non-VAM plants were not significant at P=0.05. Aboveground biomass was not affected by VAM species in plants stressed at 55 or 55 and 63 days, butG. fasciculatum-inoculated plants produced more tillers atter stress at 55 days. When grown to maturity, VAM plants which had undergone three stress periods had twice the biomass and grain yield as non-VAM plants subjected to the same stress. The three stress periods reduced number of heads and kernel numbers of weight of non-VAM plants compared to VAM plants.G. fasciculatum-inoculated plants consistently had increased root weight and rooting depth.
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    Restriction enzyme digestion patterns ofFrankia plasmids (1985)
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    Plant and soil 87 (1985), S. 49-60 
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    Keywords: Actinorhizae ; Alnus ; Frankia ; Nitrogen fixation ; Plasmids ; Restriction analysis ; Symbiosis
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    Notes: Summary After the initial screening of more than 200Frankia strains, the plasmid DNA observed in eight Frankiae was analyzed.In situ lysis was performed to obtain an estimate of their copy number and molecular weight. Four plasmid classes were distinguished, 7–9, 18–20, 30–35 and 50–55 kb. Twelve plasmids were thus analysed with restriction enzymes to determine their plasmid restriction patterns. While someFrankia plasmids with comparable molecular weights were found to be heterologous in their restriction enzyme pattern, an 8 kb plasmid found in bothFrankia sp. ArI3, isolated fromAlnus rubra andFrankia sp. CpI1 isolated fromComptonia peregrina showed undistinguishable ‘fingerprints’. Furthermore, an 18 kb plasmid found in the same two strains, also showed homologous restriction enzyme patterns. However, the copy numbers of the two ArI3 plasmids were higher than those of the CpI1 plasmids. Similarly, strains ACN1AG, $$TX41_{b^--- }^{AC} and TX38_{b^--- }^{AC} $$ , isolated fromAlnus crispa all contained a 50 kb plasmid, and the three plasmids were found upon restriction analysis to be undistinguishable. In one strain, ARgX17c isolated fromAlnus rugosa, it was found through restriction enzyme analysis that two plasmids of a similar molecular weight were in fact heterologous. The possible origin of the homologous plasmids and their potential as specificFrankia markers to be used in ecological studies are discussed.
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    In vitro propagation and nodulation byFrankia of actinorhizal Russian Olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia L.) (1985)
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    Plant and soil 87 (1985), S. 143-152 
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    Keywords: Actinorhizae ; Elaeagnus angustifolia ; Frankia ; In vitro propagation ; Nitrogen fixation ; Nodulation ; Russian Olive ; Tissue culture
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    Notes: Summary Following the evaluation of the nutritional requirements for thein vitro propagation ofElaeagnus angustifolia, this actinorhizal species was routinely multiplied on MS, supplemented with 100 mM sucrose and 5 μM kinetin. On this medium, at a 3 week-interval, a multiplication rate of 5–10 was observed. A morphological variant occurred in culture (wet type) but it was converted into the normal type (pubescent type) by a passage on 1/2 macro MS and 1.5% agar. One hundred percent rooting was achieved in liquid medium containing 1/2 MS without growth regulators. The plantlets were transferred aseptically to a nitrogen-free artificial soil substrate and inoculated with pure cultures of differentFrankia strains which had been isolated from Elaeagnus, Shepherdia and Hippophae host plants. We thus ascertained that afterin vitro propagation, the plants retained their capacity to nodulate and sustain nitrogen fixation.
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    Effect of inoculation ofAzospirillum lipoferum on nitrogen fixation in rhizosphere soil, their association with root, yield and nitrogen uptake by mustard (Brassica juncea) (1985)
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    Plant and soil 87 (1985), S. 273-280 
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    Keywords: Azospirillum ; Mustard ; Nitrogen fixation ; Rhizosphere soil ; Root association ; Seed inoculation
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    Notes: Summary A microplot field experiment was conducted in the presence or absence of P and N application to evaluate the influence of the seed inoculation of mustard (cv. Baruna T59) withAzospirillum lipoferum on N2-fixation in rhizosphere, association of the bacteria with the roots and grain yield and N uptake. Inoculation significantly increased the N content in rhizosphere soil particularly at early stage (40 days) of plant growth, which was accompanied by the increased association of the bacteria (A. lipoferum) in rhizosphere soil, root surface washing and surface-sterilized macerated root. A significant increase in grain yield and N uptake was also observed due to inoculation. Application of P particularly at the 20 kg. ha−1 level further enhanced the beneficial effect ofAzospirillum lipoferum inoculation, while N addition markedly reduced such an effect.
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    The potential for breeding white clover (Trifolium repens L.) with improved nodulation and nitrogen fixation when grown with combined nitrogen (1985)
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    Plant and soil 88 (1985), S. 197-211 
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    Keywords: Nitrate nitrogen ; Nitrate tolerance ; Nitrogen fixation ; Nodulation ; Trifolium repens ; Symbiotic variation
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    Notes: Summary The variability in nodulation and nitrogen fixation traits ofTrifolium repens (cv. S. 100) supplied with abundant nitrate nitrogen was examined using an aseptic tube culture technique. Nodule numbers varied from 0 to 20 per plant and acetylene reduction activity from 0 to 49 nmol C2H4/plant per h. Plants were selected from this variable population for high, low and zero nodule numbers. Plants within groups were intercrossed and progeny used to establish high, low and zero nodule families. These were subsequently tested for nodulation and acetylene reduction activity in the presence and absence of combined nitrogen. When grown with nitrate the control populations (unselected S. 100 and Pronitro) averaged 3.05 nodules per plant, the high family averaged 4 per plant while the low line averaged 1 nodule per plant (P〈0.05). Nodule numbers were strongly correlated with acetylene reduction activity (r= +0.92) but C2H4 production was generally low, averaging respectively 4.9 and 3.1 nmol/plant per h in the high and low lines. In the absence of nitrate nodule numbers increased to an average of 50 per plant and acetylene reduction activity rose to 175.5 nmol/plant per h. There was no correlation between ability of selection lines to nodulate in the presence and absence of nitrate. The results demonstrate the existence of heritable genetic factors controlling nodulation and nitrogenase activity in the presence of nitrate, but the phenotypic expression of these characters is so strongly inhibited by nitrate that increases in nitrogen fixation in the presence of combined nitrogen which are likely to be of agricultural significance would require much greater genetic improvements than those demonstrated here. The possibilities for such improvements are discussed.
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    The response of field grownPhaseolus vulgaris to Rhizobium inoculation and the quantification of N2 fixation using15N (1985)
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    Plant and soil 88 (1985), S. 333-343 
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    Keywords: Acetylene reduction ; Bean cultivars ; Harvest index ; 15N dilution ; Nitrogen fixation ; Nodulation ; Phaseolus vulgaris ; Rhizobium inoculation
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    Notes: Summary A field experiment was performed to assess the effects of Rhizobium inoculation and nitrogen fertilizer (100 kg N ha−1) on four cultivars of Phaseolus beans; Carioca, Negro Argel, Venezuela 350 and Rio Tibagi. In the inoculated treatment 2.5 kg N ha−1 of15N labelled fertilizer was added in order to apply the isotope dilution technique to quantify the contribution of N2 fixation to the nutrition of these cultivars. Nodulation of all cultivars in the uninoculated treatments was poor, but the cultivars Carioca and Negro Argel were well nodulated when inoculated. Even when inoculated, nodulation of the cultivars Venezuela 350 and Rio Tibagi was poor and these cultivars showed little response to inoculation in terms of nitrogen accumulation or grain yield. The estimates of the contribution of N2 fixation estimated using the isotope dilution technique, for the Carioca and Negro Argel cultivars, amounted to 31.7 and 18.4 kg N ha−1 respectively. These two cultivars produced 991 and 883 kg ha−1 of grain, respectively, when inoculated and 663 and 620 kg ha−1 with the addition of 100 kg N ha−1 of N fertilizer. The response to nitrogen was particularly poor due to high leaching losses in the very sandy soil at the experimental site. The Venezuela 350 and Rio Tibagi cultivars only responded to N fertilizer and not to inoculation with Rhizobium which stresses the great importance of selecting plant cultivars for nitrogen fixation in the field.
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    Effect of zinc supply on growth of three species of Eucalyptus seedlings and wheat (1985)
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    Plant and soil 88 (1985), S. 377-384 
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    Keywords: Carbonic anhydrase ; Dry matter ; Eucalyptus maculata ; E. marginata ; E. patens ; Seedlings ; Symptoms ; Triticum aestivum ; Zinc
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    Notes: Summary Effects of zinc supply on shoot and root dry weight, root length, zinc concentrations and carbonic anhydrase activity were measured in 52 day old seedlings ofEucalyptus maculata, E. marginata, E. patens and wheat grown in a zinc deficient soil in the glasshouse. Symptoms of zinc deficiency in the eucalyptus and wheat appeared within 20 to 35 days. Eucalypt seedlings had short internodes and small necrotic leaves, reduced dry weight of shoots and roots, root length and zinc concentrations in young leaves; the measurable level of leaf carbonic anhydrase activity decreased to zero. Similar responses also occurred in wheat. The level of zinc fertilizer required for normal growth of Eucalyptus seedlings is therefore likely to be similar to that used for wheat and other agricultural crops.
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    Delayed inoculation and starter nitrogen for enhancing early growth and nitrogen status ofLespedeza cuneata (1985)
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    Plant and soil 84 (1985), S. 311-321 
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    Keywords: Acetylene reduction ; Minesoil ; Nitrogen fixation ; Nitrogen source ; Reclamation ; Sericea lespedeza ; Surface mining
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    Notes: Summary Two growth chamber experiments were conducted to determine the response ofLespedeza cuneata (Dumont) G. Don. (sericea lespedeza) to delayed inoculation and low levels of nitrogen fertilization. Nitrogen was supplied either as NH 4 + or as NO 3 − in solution. At 0.5 and 5.0 ppm nitrogen early growth and N2(C2H2) fixation was inhibited by NH 4 + and promoted by NO 3 − . Inoculation at seeding did not negatively affect growth prior to the onset of N2(C2H2) fixation. Delayed inoculation until the trifoliate stage thus did not increase growth or N2 fixation during the first 40 days of growth. After 40 days, specific nitrogenase activity was highest for plants inoculated at the first trifoliate stage of growth. In contrast, growth and total shoot nitrogen accumulation were higher in plants inoculated at planting. The experimental results suggest that delaying inoculation is not a useful technique for improving early growth ofL. cuneata for surface mine reclamation.
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    Studies of an effective strain ofFrankia fromAllocasuarina lehmanniana of the Casuarinaceae (1985)
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    Plant and soil 87 (1985), S. 1-16 
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    Keywords: Allocasuarina ; Casuarina ; Frankia ; Nitrogen fixation ; Nodulation
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    Notes: Summary Seedlings ofCasuarina spp. andAllocasuarina spp. were grown from seed in the greenhouse and inoculated with a nodule suspension fromC. equisetifolia. Plants ofCasuarina spp. nodulated regularly and were effective in nitrogen-fixation. Only one species ofAllocasuariona, A. lehmanniana formed root nodules. Using these plants as source of inoculum, the isolation of a newFrankia sp. HFPA11I1 (HFP022 801) was made and the strain was grown in pure culture.Frankia sp. HFPA11I1 grows well in a defined medium and shows typical morphological characteristics. In media lacking combined nitrogen, the filamentours bacterium forms terminal vesicles in abundance and differentiaties large intrahyphal or terminal sporangia containing numerous spores. This strain, used as inoculum, nodulates effectively seedlings ofC. equisietifolia andC. cunninghamiana, forming nodules with verically-growing nodule roots. Although effective in acetylene reduction, the endophyte within the nodules is filamentous and lacks veiscles. When used to inoculated seedlings ofA llocasuarina lehmanniana, Frankia sp. HFPA11I1 induces root nodules which are coralloid and lacking nodule roots. The nodules are effective in acetylene reduction and the filamentous hyphae ofFrankia within the nodule lobes lack vesicles. Effective nodulation inA. Lehmanniana depends upon environmental conditions of the seedlings and proceeds much more slowly than in Casuariana.
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    Importance of bacteroid number in nodules and effective nodule mass to dinitrogen fixation by cowpeas (1985)
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    Plant and soil 87 (1985), S. 223-231 
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    Keywords: Nitrogen fixation ; Rhizobia ; Vigna unguiculata
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    Notes: Summary Biological nitrogen fixation is considered an important trait of cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. var. ‘California Blackeye’ No. 5) for economical production yet the process does not alone provide the quantity of nitrogen required by the plant for maximum productivity. Two experiments were undertaken to determine the potential of an increase in nodule mass and number of bacteroids resulting in increased nitrogen fixation. Cowpeas were grown in a glasshouse for 7 weeks under conditions forcing near total dependence on biological nitrogen fixation for growth. Nodule mass on the roots was varied by inoculating seeds with various ratios of effective and ineffective rhizobia that could be identified serologically and by the color of nodule formed. The results of both experiments demonstrated a linear relationship between total nodule mass formed by the effective rhizobia and quantity of nitrogen fixed. The regression coefficients were high in both experiments (r=0.99** and 0.91**). The relationship between total nitrogen fixed and total number of bacteroids of the effective strain was not consistent. In one experiment the regression coefficient was 0.93** but in the other experiment it was 0.65**. From these results it appears that there is good potential for increasing nitrogen fixation in cowpeas by increasing nodule mass. An increase in nodule mass would also result in an increase in the number of bacteroids.
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    Pressure chamber measurements using two wheat leaves (1985)
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    Plant and soil 87 (1985), S. 309-310 
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    Keywords: Leaf water potential ; Pressure chamber ; Triticum aestivum
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    Notes: Summary The most widely used technique of leaf water potential measurements is with the Scholander pressure chamber. Representative leaf water potential values require many determinations on individual leaves and this can be time consuming in large fields or experiments with multiple treatments. This paper describes a method of obtaining a mean value more rapidly, by using two leaves in the pressure chamber at the same time, but recording the end point of each leaf separately.
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    Response of lentil to VA Mycorrhizal inoculation and plant available P levels of unsterile soils (1985)
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    Plant and soil 87 (1985), S. 445-447 
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    Keywords: Glomus fasciculatum ; Lentil ; Nitrogen fixation
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    Notes: Summary Responses of lentil in unsterile soils at low, medium and high levels of plant available soil P toGlomus fasciculatum inoculation were evaluated. It was observed that growth, dry matter accumulation, nodulation, and nitrogen fixation were considerably improved in VAM inoculated plants over uninoculated control at low and medium levels of plant available soil P.
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    Influence of washing on elemental analysis of leaves of fieldgrown crop plants (1985)
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    Plant and soil 88 (1985), S. 93-100 
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    Keywords: Aluminum ; Calcium ; Copper ; Glycine max ; Iron ; Magnesium ; Manganese ; Nitrogen ; Phosphorus ; Potassium ; Sorghum bicolor ; Triticum aestivum ; Zea Mays ; Zinc
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    Notes: Summary Information is limited on soil contamination of leaves from field-grown row crops, especially with respect to aluminum (Al) analyses. The objective of this study was to determine the influence of washing leaf samples with either deionized water or detergent solution on elemental analyses for several agronomic crop plants. The crop plants sampled were corn (Zea mays L.), soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.), grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench), and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The crops were grown on a range of soil types, soil pH values, and tillage practices. Samples of upper leaves and lower leaves were collected separately. The samples were either not washed, washed with deionized water, or washed with detergent solution. After drying, grinding, and digesting, the samples were analyzed for Al, nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), and copper (Cu). For all crop plants and conditions studied, there was no effect on measured N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Mn, Zn, or Cu concentrations, but measured Al and Fe concentrations were influenced by washing. In general, washing had a greater effect on Al analyses than on Fe analyses. Soybean samples were most affected by washing, while wheat samples seemed to be least affected. The results reflected greater contamination of lower leaves than upper leaves. Decontamination procedures appear necessary prior to Al and Fe analyses of field-grown crop plants.
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    The cost to plants of different strategies of adaptation to stress and the alleviation of stress by increasing assimilation (1985)
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    Plant and soil 89 (1985), S. 57-67 
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    Keywords: Adaptation ; Carbon balance ; Carbon dioxide ; Environmental stress ; Heat stress ; Maintenance respiration ; Nitrogen fixation ; Salinity stress
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    Notes: Summary The fitter of two species that use different strategies to overcome the same stress may be the one that expends the least resources to cope with this stress. However, this concept has proven difficult to quantify. It is proposed here that the increase in maintenance respiration in response to stress factors such as high temperature, salinity or a high-oxygen atmosphere (one indirect effect of which is nitrogen deficiency) may provide a measure of the cost of adaptation, in terms of expenditure of assimilated carbon. A corrolary to this is that, where it can be shown that an adaptive strategy results in the expenditure of assimilates, adaptation may be enhanced by increasing carbon assimilation. Results are presented supporting the hypothesis and its corrolary.
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    Nutrition of sorghum plants fertilized with nitrogen or inoculated withAzospirillum brasilense (1985)
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    Plant and soil 85 (1985), S. 145-148 
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    Keywords: Mutualism ; Nitrogen fixation ; Sorghum bicolor
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    Notes: Summary Sorghum plants were inoculated withAzospirillum brasilense or received an N-amended nutrient solution. Azospirillum inoculation increased plant dry weight and nitrogen assimilation by 25%. Most plant growth responses to Azospirillum were comparable to application of 2.0 mM N. Increased scavenging of nutrients, altered root permeability or nitrogen fixation are possible explanations for these effects.
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    Effects of rhizospheric bacteria on wheat yield under field conditions (1985)
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    Plant and soil 86 (1985), S. 347-355 
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    Keywords: Azospirillum ; Rhizospheric bacteria ; Spring wheat ; Triticum aestivum ; Triticum durum ; Yield response
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    Notes: Summary Five field experiments were conducted during 1982 and 1983 to evaluate the yield response of two lines of common wheat and one line of durum wheat to several rhizospheric bacteria. The two lines tested in the 1982 experiment (a common wheat and a durum wheat) showed a considerable yield response to incoulation withAzospirillum brasilense, with an average significant yield incresae of 23%. In the 1983 experiments, variable yield responses, some of which were significant, were obtained by inoculating three wheat lines (two common wheat and one durum wheat) with Azospirillum or with other rhizospheric bacteria, isolated from various Israeli wild relatives of wheat. A certain specificity between the tested wheat lines, the applied bacteria and the particular local conditions was evident. Inverse relationships were found between the maximum percentage yield increase due to inoculation with the most efficient bacteria and the yield level of the non-inoculated plots.
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    Effects of plant breeding and selection on yields and nitrogen fixation in soybeans under two soil nitrogen regimes (1985)
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    Plant and soil 86 (1985), S. 357-367 
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    Keywords: Glycine max ; Isotope dilution ; 15N techniques ; Nitrogen availability ; Nitrogen fixation ; Plant breeding ; Varietal comparison
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Soybeans (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) have a high N requirement which is fulfilled by soil N uptake and N2-fixation. This study was concerned with the effects of past yield selection on N2-fixation in soybeans. The soybean cultivars, ‘Lincoln’, ‘Shelby’, and ‘Williams’, which represent successive improvements in the ‘Lincoln’ germplasm, and a non-nodulating control were planted in a soil containing15N labelled organic matter. Two replications occurred on soil previously cropped to alfalfa and two on soil previously cropped to soybeans. Plants were harvested at five growth stages and leaf area, plant weight, total N, and atom percent15N were determined. Mature grain was harvested and yield components were also determined, as well as the total N and15N content. Cultivar differences in total dry matter were only evident at physiological maturity, when Williams contained the greatest dry matter. Williams exhibited the longest period of seed formation and seed fill and also had the highest grain yield which resulted from a larger weight per seed. The N content of the cultivars did not vary until physiological maturity when Williams contained the highest percent N. The quantity of N fixed at physiological maturity was highest for Williams and lowest for Lincoln. Fixed N contained in the harvested grain was greater for Williams than for the other two cultivars. The fraction of the total plant N derived from fixation was not greatly affected by cultivar and all cultivars acquired an average of 50% of their total N through N2-fixation. Previous cropping history greatly affected the quantity of N fixed and the fraction of the total plant N derived from fixation. Soybeans following soybeans were more dependent upon N2-fixation than soybeans following alfalfa with the former deriving 65% of the total plant N from fixation and the latter only 32%. These soybean cultivars apparently utilized soil N first and then used N2-fixation to satisfy their N requirement. The past selection for higher yield has resulted in soybean cultivars with improved capacities to fix atmospheric N2 and an improved ability to take up available soil N.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02145456
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    The potential for breeding white clover (Trifolium repens L.) with improved nodulation and nitrogen fixation when grown with combined nitrogen (1985)
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    Plant and soil 88 (1985), S. 181-195 
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    ISSN: 1573-5036
    Keywords: Breeding ; Nitrate nitrogen ; Nitrogen fixation ; Nodulation ; Trifolium repens ; White clover
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Sodium nitrate applications ranging from 0.36 to 22.84 mM N were shown to depress rates of nodule formation and reduce total nitrogen fixation (acetylene reduction) in white clover plants grown in aseptic test tube culture. Low nitrate levels gave an initial depression in symbiotic activity but the reduction was of short duration and these treatments were subsequently associated with enhanced rates of nodule formation and nitrogen fixation. As a result, phenotypic variation appeared to be strongly differentially affected by the amount of nitrate present. A subsequent experiment suggested that much of the variation was a consequence of early enhancement of plant growth rates by low levels of nitrate followed by rapid depletion thus giving a transitory inhibitory effect. This was confirmed in a third experiment in which the range of nitrate concentration was held constant. Differential effects on variability in nodule formation and nitrogen fixation were then greatly reduced but there was still a residual level of plant-to-plant variation. The results have clear implications for selecting genetic variants capable of fixing di-nitrogen in the presence of combined N. The provision of a single limiting dose of combined nitrogen to a population containing individuals with inherently different growth rates can bring about variations in the phenotypic expression of symbiotic characters. These variations are unlikely to be based on genetic factors which have a direct and stable effect on nodule development and nitrogenase activity. The implications of the results for plant breeding are discussed.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02182445
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