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Title: Carbon metabolism in legume nodules. Progress report, July 1982-July 1983

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5899627

The goal is to understand how the legume nodule metabolizes carbohydrate to provide energy and reductant for symbiotic fixation. The working hypothesis has been that the plant cytosol is microacrobic and that some carbon metabolism may be via anaerobic pathways similar to those in roots of flood tolerant plants. A method of analyzing redox changes in intact mitochondria, bacteroids or bacteria was adapted; a method of manipulating nitrogenase activity by oxygen inhibition was developed; the production of alcohol by soybean nodules was studied; and enzymes metabolizing alcohol/aldehyde were found in other nitrogen fixing systems. (ACR)

Research Organization:
Boyce Thompson Inst. for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-82ER12066
OSTI ID:
5899627
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/12066-T1; ON: DE83016851
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English