Sodium-coupled solute transport in charophyte algae: A general mechanism for transport energization in plant cells?
β Scribed by N. Alan Walker; Dale Sanders
- Book ID
- 104660895
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 306 KB
- Volume
- 185
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0032-0935
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β¦ Synopsis
Ion-gradient-coupled transport systems in plants are normally electrophoretic and carry inward current. Rapid inward electrical currents elicited by K +, by urea and by lysine in the freshwater acidophilic alga Nitella translucens Agh. are all very strongly dependent on the presence ofNa + or (except in the case of K +) Li +. These results indicate that Na +-coupled solute transport in plants, which had previously been demonstrated only in an alkalophilic species (Chara australis), did not evolve recently as an alternative to H +-coupled transport in high-pH environments, and might therefore be more widely distributed than has hitherto been recognised.
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