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The absorption and availability of nitrate and ammonia

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Der Stickstoffumsatz / Nitrogen Metabolism

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This section is concerned with those environmental and plant variables which control the uptake of ammonium salts and nitrates and their utilisation as nitrogen sources. The origin of these salts and their distribution in soils are considered in the preceding section (p. 119) and elsewhere in this Handbook. The enzymic reduction of nitrate within the plant will be dealt with in Section II D, a (p. 201). Assessment of the relevance of data on nitrate and ammonium uptake to the general question of the mechanisms of salt absorption is not considered to be within the scope of the present section. Since the early history of our knowledge of the forms of nitrogen utilised by green plants has been reviewed by various authors (Hutchinson and Miller 1909, 1912, Nightingale 1937, Wilson 1940, Prianischnikov 1951), this aspect will also not be given detailed treatment.

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Street, H.E., Sheat, D.E.G. (1958). The absorption and availability of nitrate and ammonia. In: Allen, E.K., et al. Der Stickstoffumsatz / Nitrogen Metabolism. Handbuch der Pflanzenphysiologie / Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-94733-9_6

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