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A Genetic Approach to Plant Biochemistry pp 101–157Cite as

The Molecular Genetics of Higher Plant Nitrate Assimilation

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The nitrate assimilation pathway is the major point of entry of inorganic nitrogen into organic combination in most crop plants growing in well-aerated soils. This pathway converts nitrate to ammonium via a nitrate uptake mechanism and two enzymes, nitrate reductase (NR) and nitrite reductase (NiR), thereby making nitrogen available for a variety of biosyntheses, of which the most important quantitatively is protein synthesis.

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