Alkaline Band Formation in Chara corallina
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- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 63 (2) , 248-254
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.63.2.248
Abstract
The nature of the transport system responsible for the establishment of alkaline bands on cells of Chara corallina was investigated. The transport process was found to be insensitive to external pH, provided the value was above a certain threshold. At this threshold (pH 5.1 to 4.8) the transport process was inactivated. Transport function could be recovered by raising the pH value of the external solution. The fastest rate of recovery was always obtained in the presence of exogenous HCO3−.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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