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Nitrogen Assimilation in Grapevine

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Molecular Biology & Biotechnology of the Grapevine

Abstract

Nitrogen plays the most important role of all nutrients in plant growth. It is the plant nutrient most likely to be deficient in grapevine although it is the nutrient most commonly applied to vineyards to increase productivity. Considerable new information has been obtained over the past twenty years on the uptake, translocation, distribution, partitioning, and storage of nitrogenous compounds in grapevines. Considerable new information has also been developed on synthesis and degradation of amino acids and other nitrogenous compounds in grapevines and the enzymes associated with these reactions. However, in spite of the wide-spread usage of nitrogen fertilization in vineyards, the physiological and biochemical effects of nitrogen on shoot and fruit growth, fruit bud initiation, flowering, fruitset, and crop yield are still poorly understood. Grapevines differ from herbaceous plants and many other woody plants in that they do not form terminal buds at the end of shoots, but they can continue to grow late into the season. The individual flower parts are formed after budbreak, unlike most deciduous fruit trees.

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