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Amino Acid Transport

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Depending on the species, nitrogen may be reduced either by symbiosis with bacteria (legumes, see Chap. 3.1), directly after root uptake from the soil (see Chap. 2), or after xylem transport of the root nitrate to the leaf (most herbaceous species, e.g. Gossypium, Xanthium). Some plants also reduce nitrate partly in the roots and partly in the leaves (Picea, barley, maize). Although the different patterns of reduction result in different patterns of nitrogen transport, one feature common to all plants is that the two main conducting systems (xylem and phloem) are involved, and that xylem/phloem exchanges may occur along the path (Pate 1980). This ensures a constant and efficient recycling of nitrogen among the different organs. As will be detailed below, amino acids play a major role in nitrogen transport. In some cases, especially in the remobilisation of nitrogen from the endosperm to the growing embryo, the transport of small peptides (up to four to five amino acids) also has physiological significance. Although the spectra of amino acids found in the xylem and in the phloem are similar, the xylem usually contains low amino acid concentrations (3–20 mM in Urtica,Rosnick-Shimmel 1985), whereas much higher concentrations are found in the phloem, e.g. 100 mM in rice (Hayashi and Chino 1990) and 60 to 140 mM in different sugar beet varieties (Lohaus et al. 1994).

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Delrot, S., Rochat, C., Tegeder, M., Frommer, W. (2001). Amino Acid Transport. In: Lea, P.J., Morot-Gaudry, JF. (eds) Plant Nitrogen. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04064-5_8

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