Claim · model-written summary
Adding potassium to distilled water decreased insoluble oxalate.
- Taxon
- sugar-beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarise0t0e1
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e0“addition of potassium caused a decrease”
t0“Accumulation of Oxalate in Tissues of Sugar-beet, and the Effect of Nitrogen Supply”
e1“Addition of calcium and nitrate to the distilled water caused an increase of insoluble oxalate, while addition of potassium caused a decrease”
Title
Accumulation of Oxalate in Tissues of Sugar-beet, and the Effect of Nitrogen Supply
K. W. JOY Annals of Botany 1964. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a083925
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation In field-grown sugar beet, insoluble oxalate was low in roots and high in leaves.
- Observation Sugar beet leaf insoluble oxalate was about 12% of ethanol-insoluble material.
- Association Insoluble oxalate concentration increased continuously through the life of a sugar beet leaf.
- Observation Magnesium salt made up 15–30% of insoluble oxalate, with the remainder as calcium salt.
- Intervention effect Oxalate in nitrate-fed culture plants was similar to that in soil-grown plants.
- Intervention effect Ammonium sulphate or ammonium nitrate in culture solution yielded low soluble and insoluble oxalate.
- Intervention effect Soil-grown plants receiving ammonium salts had very low soluble oxalate.
- Intervention effect Soil-grown plants receiving ammonium salts had slightly less insoluble oxalate than nitrate-fed plants.
- Intervention effect Root or leaf disks lost insoluble oxalate during distilled-water washing.
- Intervention effect Root or leaf disks gained more than twofold insoluble oxalate during tap-water washing.
- Intervention effect Adding calcium and nitrate to distilled water increased insoluble oxalate.
- Observation Sugar beet tissue disks metabolized oxalate.
- Mechanism Oxalate accumulation appeared connected to nitrate assimilation and cation-anion balance.