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Carbohydrate and free amino acid contents in tomato plants grown in media with bicarbonate and nitrate or ammonium

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Tomato plants were cultivated (from 2 to 23 days after germination) in media with NO −3 , NH +4 , or a mixture of both forms in different proportions used as the N source given with or without 5 mol dm−3 HCO −3 . The accumulation of soluble sugars (reducing sugars and sucrose) and free amino acids was higher in the roots and leaves of NH +4 -fed plants than in NO −3 -fed plants. Starch accumulation in NH +4 -fed plants was higher in leaves (about 28%) and lower in roots (about 37%) in comparison with that of NO −3 -fed plants. Plants cultivated in media containing a mixture of NO −3 /NH +4 were characterized by a lower content of sugars and amino acids accumulation in comparison with that in plants fed with NO −3 or NH +4 . An elevated HCO −3 concentration in the rhizosphere stimulated the accumulation of soluble sugars and free amino acids in all the experimental variants. There were only small differences in the starch content.

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Abbreviations

DAG:

day after germination

DIC:

dissolved inorganic carbon

DW:

dry matter

PEPc:

phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase

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  1. Department of Plant Physiology and Development, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387, Kraków, Poland

    Jan Bialczyk, Dariusz Dziga & Krzysztof Molenda

  2. Department of Plant Physiology and Development, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387, Kraków, Poland

    Zbigniew Lechowski

  3. Department of Plant Physiology, Swietokrzyska Academy, Swietokrzyska 15, 24-406, Kielce, Poland

    Jan Bialczyk, Zbigniew Lechowski, Dariusz Dziga & Krzysztof Molenda

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Bialczyk, J., Lechowski, Z., Dziga, D. et al. Carbohydrate and free amino acid contents in tomato plants grown in media with bicarbonate and nitrate or ammonium. Acta Physiol Plant 27, 523–529 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-005-0058-7

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