Claim · model-written summary
Disrupting NRT1.8 increased xylem sap nitrate concentration significantly.
- Taxon
- Arabidopsis thaliana
Arabidopsis thalianae1 - Treatment
- Functional disruption of NRT1.8e0
- Gene
- NRT1.8e0
- Outcome
- nitrate concentration in xylem sape0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Functional disruption of NRT1.8 significantly increased the nitrate concentration in xylem sap.”
e1“in Arabidopsis thaliana”
Title
Jian-Yong Li; Yan-Lei Fu; Sharon M. Pike; et al. The Plant Cell 2010. doi:10.1105/tpc.110.075242
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Nitrate upregulated NRT1.8.
- Observation NRT1.8 expression was predominant in xylem parenchyma cells.
- Observation NRT1.8 was localized to the plasma membrane.
- Observation NRT1.8 mediated low-affinity nitrate uptake in oocytes.
- Intervention effect NRT1.8 was strongly upregulated by cadmium stress in roots.
- Observation The nrt1.8-1 mutant had a nitrate-dependent cadmium-sensitive phenotype.
- Intervention effect Cadmium stress increased nitrate allocation to wild-type roots relative to nrt1.8-1.
- Mechanism The authors infer that NRT1.8 removes nitrate from xylem vessels.
- Mechanism The authors infer an important role for NRT1.8-regulated nitrate distribution in cadmium tolerance.