Recent advances in carbon and nitrogen metabolism in C3 plants

M Baslam, T Mitsui, K Sueyoshi, T Ohyama - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
C and N are the most important essential elements constituting organic compounds in
plants. The shoots and roots depend on each other by exchanging C and N through the …

Interactions between nitrate and ammonium in their uptake, allocation, assimilation, and signaling in plants

T Hachiya, H Sakakibara - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Nitrogen (N) availability is a major factor determining plant growth and productivity. Plants
acquire inorganic N from the soil, mainly in the form of nitrate and ammonium. To date …

Metabolic control of nitrogen fixation in rhizobium-legume symbioses

CCM Schulte, K Borah, RM Wheatley, JJ Terpolilli… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Rhizobia induce nodule formation on legume roots and differentiate into bacteroids, which
catabolize plant-derived dicarboxylates to reduce atmospheric N2 into ammonia. Despite …

Isotopically nonstationary 13C flux analysis of changes in Arabidopsis thaliana leaf metabolism due to high light acclimation

F Ma, LJ Jazmin, JD Young… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Improving plant productivity is an important aim for metabolic engineering. There are few
comprehensive methods that quantitatively describe leaf metabolism, although such …

Ammonium stress in Arabidopsis: signaling, genetic loci, and physiological targets

B Li, G Li, HJ Kronzucker, F Baluška, W Shi - Trends in plant science, 2014 - cell.com
Ammonium (NH 4+) toxicity is a significant ecological and agricultural issue, and an
important phenomenon in cell biology. As a result of increasing soil nitrogen input and …

Ammonium phytotoxicity and tolerance: An insight into ammonium nutrition to improve crop productivity

J Shilpha, J Song, BR Jeong - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ammonium sensitivity is considered a globally stressful condition that affects overall crop
productivity. The major toxic symptom associated with ammonium nutrition is growth …

Direct carbon capture for the production of high-performance biodegradable plastics by cyanobacterial cell factories

C Tan, F Tao, P Xu - Green Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Plastic pollution caused by non-biodegradable plastics is one of the most widely discussed
and notable challenges of the 21st century. Developing biodegradable plastics, such as …

The Arabidopsis transcription factor NLP2 regulates early nitrate responses and integrates nitrate assimilation with energy and carbon skeleton supply

M Durand, V Brehaut, G Clement, Z Kelemen… - The plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nitrate signaling improves plant growth under limited nitrate availability and, hence, optimal
resource use for crop production. Whereas several transcriptional regulators of nitrate …

Intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis exploits multiple host nitrogen sources during growth in human macrophages

K Borah, M Beyß, A Theorell, H Wu, P Basu… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Nitrogen metabolism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is crucial for the survival of this
important pathogen in its primary human host cell, the macrophage, but little is known about …

Metabolic flux analysis of the non-transitory starch tradeoff for lipid production in mature tobacco leaves

KL Chu, S Koley, LM Jenkins, SR Bailey… - Metabolic …, 2022 - Elsevier
The metabolic plasticity of tobacco leaves has been demonstrated via the generation of
transgenic plants that can accumulate over 30% dry weight as triacylglycerols. In …