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The aim of this paper was to study, in the second leaf of wheat plants with a long ontogenesis (47 d), the activity of the enzyme which catalyzes the synthesis of glutamic acid. The activity of the NADH-dependent glutamate synthase prevailed in young tissues of not yet fully expanded second leaf at the stage of incomplete autotrophy (at this stage, organic carbon and nitrogen substances are transferred into the leaf). This form was completely inhibited by azaserine (1 mmol1−1). The activity of the ferredoxin-dependent GOGAT increased with increasing leaf blade area, with its peak occuring at the time of maximum expansion of the assimilation area. Thus fd-GOGAT activity was characteristic for the photosynthetic fully autotrophic phase of leaf development which is materialized in completely mature leaf tissues. In plants grown in full-strength Knop’s nutrient solution containing nitrogen, fd-GOGAT was active till the early and medium senescence, whereas only to the early senescence in plants grown in a solution lacking nitrogen. No fd-GOGAT could be detected at the stage of late leaf senescence.
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Činčerová, A., NovotnÁ, D. & Dvořák, M. NADH- and Ferredoxin-Dependent Glutamate Synthase in the Life Span of the Second Leaf of Wheat Plant under Conditions of Senescence Induced by Nitrogen Deficiency and Natural Senescence. Biol Plant 33, 317–324 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02885380
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