Claim · model-written summary
Upper wheat leaf blades assimilated nitrate.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Organ / stage
- leaf bladese0
- Outcome
- NO ‐ 3 assimilatione0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“these leaf blades were active in NO ‐ 3 assimilation”
t0“Wheat”
Title
Nitrogen Metabolism of the Upper Three Leaf Blades of Wheat at Different Soil Nitrogen Levels
H. L. GROVER; T. V. R. NAIR; Y. P. ABROL Physiologia Plantarum 1978. doi:10.1111/j.1399-3054.1978.tb04084.x
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation The flag leaf blade had significantly higher nitrate reductase activity than the other two blades.
- Observation The flag leaf blade had higher free amino acid and soluble protein content.
- Observation The flag leaf blade had significantly lower nitrate content.
- Intervention effect Soil nitrogen increased nitrate reductase activity at both reported steps.
- Intervention effect Soil nitrogen increased free amino acid at both reported steps.
- Intervention effect Soil nitrogen increased soluble protein content at N120 over N0.
- Intervention effect Soil nitrogen increased nitrate content at N30 and N120 over N0.
- Observation Three leaf blades reduced 280 NO3 μmol under N0 during the 35-day period.
- Observation Three leaf blades reduced 608 NO3 μmol under N30 during the 35-day period.
- Observation Three leaf blades reduced 1397 NO3 μmol under N120 during the 35-day period.