Efficiency of nitrate uptake in spinach: Impact of external nitrate concentration and relative growth rate on nitrate influx and efflux

Plant and Soil

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 125-134

  Ter Steege, Margreet W ^a,b   Stulen, Ineke ^a   Wiersema, Peter K ^a   Posthumus, Freek ^a   Vaalburg, Wim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Efflux; Influx; Net nitrate uptake rate; Regulation; Relative growth rate; Spinacia oleracea L.

Indexed keywords

SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 0032797879     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004585200558     Document Type: Article

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