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In article <1992Jan3.134751.11016@lgc.com> cl@lgc.com (Cameron Laird) writes:
>In article <1992Jan2.175611@spruce.gsfc.nasa.gov> knox@spruce.gsfc.nasa.gov (Robert Knox) writes:
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>>3) Many wild (non-agricultural) plants not only thrive in
>>environments with very low levels of detectable nitrate in 
>>the soil, but take up ammonium in preference to nitrate if
>>both are present.
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>>Some useful references:
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>>Nobel, P.S. 1991. Physiochemical and environmental plant 
>>physiology.  Academic Press, San Diego.
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>>Fitter, A.H. and R.K.M. Hay. 1987. Environmental physiology
>>of plants, 2nd Ed.  Academic Press, London.
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>>Charles-Edwards, D.A., D. Doley, G.M. Rimmington. 1986. 
>>Modeling plant growth and development. Academic Press,
>>Syndey. --this one is closest to having a suitable simple 
>>uptake model (pp. 144-146).
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>>Haynes, R.J., K.C. Cameron, K.M. Goh, R.R. Sherlock. 1986.
>>Mineral nitrogen in the plant--soil system. Academic Press,
>>Orlando. --see chapter 6: Uptake and assimilation of mineral
>>nitrogen by plants, text pp. 303-358, references pp. 358-378.
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>You have me curious.  Which plants prefer
>ammonium?  Is there a causal, or coinci-
>dental, relation with domestication?  Does
>one of these references particularly ad-
>dress itself to agronomic concerns?
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>Cameron Laird				+1 713-579-4613
>cl@lgc.com (cl%lgc.com@uunet.uu.net)	+1 713-996-8546 

C'mon Cameron----

Tell us what you are doing.  It might help out the folks who are
answering you.

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