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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 51, Issue 349, Pages 1459-1465Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jexbot/51.349.1459
Keywords
ureide degradation; allantoate amidohydrolase; boric acid; water deficit
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Ureides dramatically accumulate in shoots of N-2-fixing soybean (Glycine max L. Merr,) under water deficit and this accumulation is higher in cultivars that have N-2 fixation that is sensitive to water deficit. One possible explanation is that ureide accumulation is associated with a feedback inhibition of nitrogenase activity. A critical factor involved in ureide accumulation is likely to be the rate of ureide degradation in the leaves. There exists, however, a controversy concerning the pathway of allantoic acid degradation in soybean. Allantoate amidinohydrolase was reported to be the pathway of degradation in studies using the cultivar Maple Arrow and allantoate amidohydrolase was the pathway that existed in the cultivar Williams. This investigation was undertaken to resolve the existence of these two pathways. An in situ technique was developed to examine the response of ureide degradation in leaf tissue to various treatments. In addition, the response of ureide accumulation and N-2 fixation activity was measured for intact plants in response to treatments that differentially influenced the two degradation pathways. The results from these studies confirmed that Maple Arrow and Williams degraded allantoic acid by different pathways as originally reported. The existence of two degradation pathways within the soybean germplasm opens the possibility of modifying ureide degradation to minimize the influence of soil water deficits on N-2 fixation activity.
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