nitrate is one of the major sources of nitrogen for the growth of plants. it is taken up by plant roots and transported to the leaves where it is reduced to nitrite in the. the main objective of this research was to investigate stimulatory effects of sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, ammonia and urea on the production/generation of the nitrate reductase mrna in triticum aestivum plants. the pl...

Hedgecock, L. W. (Veterans Administration Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.) and R. L. Costello. Utilization of nitrate by pathogenic and saprophytic mycobacteria. J. Bacteriol. 84:195-205. 1962-The ability of mycobacteria to utilize nitrate as a sole source of nitrogen was examined. Nitrate-nitrogen was readily utilized by Mycobacterium butyricum, M. smegmatis, and M. tuberculosis H37Ra. Nitrate and ...

The natural acidification of groundwater in some types of environment has accelerated by acid atmospheric emissions and cultivation during the last 200 years. The direct effects are seen in changes of the groundwater chemistry in four stages, (1) seasonal depression of pH, alkalinity and some cations in very shallow groundwater, (2) long-term increase of calcium, magnesium, nitrate and sulphate...

Denitrification is a reduction of nitrate by heterotrophic and autotrophic bacteria that may ultimately produce molecular nitrogen (N2) through a series of intermediate nitrogen compounds.Vermiculite is a hydrous phyllosilicate mineral (Mg, Fe+2,Fe+3)3[(Al,Si)4O10](OH)2·4H2O with several layers for bacterial immobilization. The goal of this study was removal of nitrate from water with vermiculi...

Root cortical senescence (RCS) in Triticeae reduces nutrient uptake, nutrient content, respiration, and radial hydraulic conductance of root tissue. We used the functional-structural model SimRoot to evaluate the functional implications of RCS in barley (Hordeum vulgare) under suboptimal nitrate, phosphorus, and potassium availability. The utility of RCS was evaluated using sensitivity analyses...

We determined the quantum requirements for growth (1/ϕμ ) and fatty acid (FA) biosynthesis (1/ϕFA ) in the marine diatom, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, grown in nutrient replete conditions with nitrate or ammonium as nitrogen sources, and under nitrogen limitation, achieved by transferring cells into nitrogen free medium or by inhibiting nitrate assimilation with tungstate. A treatment in which tu...

This research presents a competitive dynamic model to evaluate the economic and groundwater quality benefits resulting from the adoption of soil/water nitrogen testing. The model is applied to an irrigated corn production county in the Nebraska Mid-State area where the groundwater contamination level from nitrates is reported to be, on average, 18.7 parts per million (ppm). Adoption of nutrient...