Acetylene-reducing activity of detached root nodules ofMyrica faya ait

1974 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Miguel ◽  
C. Rodriguez-Barrueco
Keyword(s):  
Root Nodules ◽  
Reducing Activity ◽  
Acetylene Reducing Activity

scholarly journals The Structure and Acetylene-reducing Activity of Root Nodules Formed by a Riboflavin-requiring Mutant of Rhizobium trifolii

1972 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. PANKHURST ◽  
E. A. SCHWINGHAMER ◽  
F. J. BERGERSEN
Keyword(s):  
Root Nodules ◽  
Rhizobium Trifolii ◽  
Reducing Activity ◽  
Acetylene Reducing Activity

Etude de la dynamique de l'azote à haute altitude. I. Fixation d'azote (réduction de l'acétylène) par Alnus viridis

1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (19) ◽  
pp. 1979-1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Moiroud ◽  
André Capellano
Keyword(s):  
Reduction Method ◽  
Nitrogenase Activity ◽  
Root Nodules ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Green Alder ◽  
Alnus Viridis ◽  
Reducing Activity ◽  
Diurnal Fluctuations ◽  
Acetylene Reducing Activity ◽  
Vegetative Season

During two vegetative seasons (1977, 1978), Alnus viridis Chaix root nodules were incubated in the field and assayed for nitrogen fixing activity by acetylene reduction method. In green alder the nitrogenase activity took place with the first opening of buds (June); maximum values were attained in July–August; the activity decreased steadily until leaf fall, and then ceased. Diurnal fluctuations in acetylene reducing activity were observed, the 1400-hour values were twice those of 1000 hours. The optimal temperature for nitrogenase activity was below 20 °C; this fact would be in relation with better adaptation of Alnus viridis to cold climate. The nodular biomass being only 40 kg/ha, the nitrogen fixed during the vegetative season (mid-June to mid-October) was only about 8 kg/ha. Symbiotic fixation accounted for only 10% of the nitrogen requirements of green alder.

Nitrogen fixation (acetylene reduction) by Klebsiella pneumoniae in association with 'Park' Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.)

1981 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. V. Wood ◽  
R. V. Klucas ◽  
R. C. Shearman
Keyword(s):  
Nitrogen Fixation ◽  
Klebsiella Pneumoniae ◽  
Ethylene Production ◽  
Acetylene Reduction ◽  
Nitrogenase Activity ◽  
Poa Pratensis ◽  
Kentucky Bluegrass ◽  
Surface Sterilization ◽  
Reducing Activity ◽  
Acetylene Reducing Activity

Turfs of 'Park' Kentucky bluegrass reestablished in the greenhouse and inoculated with Klebsiella pneumoniae (W6) showed significantly increased nitrogen fixation (acetylene reduction) compared with control turfs. Mean ethylene production rates per pot were 368 nmol h−1 for K. pneumoniae treated turfs, 55 nmol h−1 for heat-killed K. pneumoniae treated turfs, and 44 nmol h−1 for untreated turfs. Calculated lag periods before activity was observed were generally very short (less than 1 h).When 'Park' Kentucky bluegrass was grown from seed on soil-less medium of Turface, a fired aggregate clay, inoculation with K. pneumoniae (W6) resulted in 9 of 11 turfs showing nitrogenase activity (mean ethylene producion rate per pot was 195 nmol h−1). Only 3 of 11 turfs treated with heat-killed K. pneumoniae showed any activity and their mean rate of ethylene production (40 nmol h−1 per pot) was significantly lower than that for turfs treated with K. pneumoniae.Using the 'Park'–Turface soil-less model system it was shown that acetylene reducing activity was (i) root associated, (ii) generally highest at a depth of 1–4 cm below the surface, (iii) enhanced by washing excised roots, and (iv) inhibited by surface sterilization of excised roots. Klebsiella pneumoniae was recovered from Turface and roots showing acetylene reducing activity.

Kinetics of first-cutting regrowth of alfalfa plants and nitrogenase activity in a controlled environment with and without added nitrate

1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 2405-2409 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. D. H. Macdowall
Keyword(s):  
Dry Matter ◽  
Rhizobium Meliloti ◽  
Nitrogenase Activity ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
N Nutrition ◽  
Meliloti Strain ◽  
Medicago Sativa L ◽  
Reducing Activity ◽  
Acetylene Reducing Activity ◽  
Kinetics Of

Seedlings of Medicago sativa L. cv. Algonquin were grown in vermiculite and nodulated by Rhizobium meliloti strain 102F70 at two lower levels of N, until flowering when the tops were cut off to leave about 10% shoot stubble. Residual shoot dry matter immediately resumed first-order growth and maintained it throughout regrowth to second flowering. The rate constants of shoot regrowth were 34% lower (at 15 mM NO3−), 25% lower (at 1.5 mM NO3− symbiotically), or 220% higher (at zero NO3− symbiotically) than the values for 1 to 4-week-old seedlings, which indicated a radical change in physiology. Root dry matter resumed exponential growth after a 7-day recession and its recovery and yields were independent of N nutrition. The most pronounced minima occurred in the acetylene-reducing activity of nitrogenase, the kinetics of which paralleled root dry matter except that its redevelopment stopped after two-thirds of the regrowth time. The rate coefficient for the redevelopment of nitrogenase activity equalled that for its development during the seedling stage, which suggested unchanged limitations on that process until its redevelopment stopped.

scholarly journals The Basis of Ammonium Release in nifLMutants of Azotobacter vinelandii

1999 ◽  
Vol 181 (23) ◽  
pp. 7356-7362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Brewin ◽  
Paul Woodley ◽  
Martin Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Azotobacter Vinelandii ◽  
Transcriptional Level ◽  
Uptake System ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Two Component System ◽  
Two Component ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Reducing Activity ◽  
State Growth ◽  
Acetylene Reducing Activity

ABSTRACT In Azotobacter vinelandii, nitrogen fixation is regulated at the transcriptional level by an unusual two-component system encoded by nifLA. Certain mutations innifL result in the bacterium releasing large quantities of ammonium into the medium, and earlier work suggested that this occurs by a mechanism that does not involve NifA, the activator ofnif gene transcription. We have investigated a number of possible alternative mechanisms and find no evidence for their involvement in ammonium release. Enhancement of NifA-mediated transcription, on the other hand, by either elimination ofnifL or overexpression of nifA, resulted in ammonium release, correlating with enhanced levels of nifHmRNA, raised levels of nitrogenase and acetylene-reducing activity, and increased concentrations of intracellular ammonium. Up to 35 mM ammonium can accumulate in the medium. Where measured, intracellular levels exceeded extracellular levels, indicating that rather than being actively transported, ammonium is lost from the cell passively, possibly by reversal of an NH4 + uptake system. The data also indicate that in the wild type the bulk of NifA is inactivated by NifL during steady-state growth on dinitrogen.

New incubation device forin situ measurement of acetylene-reducing activity in ricefields

1989 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Quesada ◽  
Eva Sanchez Maeso ◽  
Eduardo Fernandez Valiente
Keyword(s):  
Reducing Activity ◽  
Acetylene Reducing Activity

scholarly journals Endorhizal and Exorhizal Acetylene-reducing Activity in a Grass (Spartina alterniflora Loisel.)-Diazotroph Association

1980 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. David Boyle ◽  
David G. Patriquin
Keyword(s):  
Spartina Alterniflora ◽  
Reducing Activity ◽  
Acetylene Reducing Activity
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