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Aspects of non-cyclic photophosphorylation and NADP photoreduction,viz (a) the effects produced on these processes by the three fertilizer elements: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; (b) variations in the catalase activity of reaction mixtures following fertilizer application, and (c) correlations between photosynthesis as measured on leaf-tissue discs and the assimilation capacity of chloroplast suspension, were studied. The role of catalase in the non-cyclic photophosphorylation processes was also studied.
While photophosphorylation is influenced chiefly by the level of available soil phosphorus, NADP reduction is affected by all three nutrients. In addition, there was a greater degree of significance, for diagnostic and application purposes, in the values obtained if these two activities were referred to the chloroplast count rather than to the chlorophyll content.
Catalase activity, in addition to responding in a different way to the respective fertilizer treatments and, in particular to available soil nitrogen, was governed by the principal constituents of the reaction mixture and in a manner contrary to that of non-cyclic photophosphorylation as measured in terms of oxygen evolution.
Experimental findings further showed that photosynthesis is correlated chiefly with NADP-reduction capacity.
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Tombesi, L., Calè, M.T. & Tibornè, B. Effects of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers on the assimilation capacity ofBeta vulgaris chloroplasts (I). Plant Soil 31, 65–76 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01373027
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