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Title: Carbon metabolism in legume nodules. Progress report, June 1, 1982-January 30, 1983

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6516571

The oxidation and reduction of flavins and pyridine nucleotides in intact bacteria can be monitored by their changes in fluorescence. This technique permits study in nitrogen fixing bacteria of the effect of inhibitors of electron transport, and of the effect of substrates which may provide reductant for nitrogenase or oxidative phosphorylation. The nitrogen fixing ability of intact legume plants or bacteroids isolated from nodules can be manipulated downward by appropriate brief treatment of supra-optimal oxygen concentrations.

Research Organization:
Boyce Thompson Inst. for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-82ER12066
OSTI ID:
6516571
Report Number(s):
DOE/ET/12066-1; ON: DE83007895
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English