Seasonal variations in nitrate reductase activity and internal N pools in intertidal brown algae are correlated with ambient nitrate concentrations

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 764-774

  Young, Erica B ^a,b   Dring, Matthew J ^b   Savidge, Graham ^b   Birkett, Daryl A ^b   Berges, John A ^a,b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

C : N ratio; Macroalgae; Nitrate assimilation; Photosynthesis; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE;

BROWN ALGA; CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENZYME ACTIVITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; MICROALGA; NITRATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWEED;

ARTICLE; BROWN ALGA; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGAE, BROWN; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRISH SEA;

FUCUS; FUCUS SERRATUS; FUCUS SPIRALIS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; LAMINARIA; LAMINARIA DIGITATA; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 34247612890     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2007.01666.x     Document Type: Article

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