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Introduction Immune responses involve rapid and extensive changes in the activities of immune cells with concomitant alterations in cellular metabolism. Full size image. Nutrient demands and metabolic configurations Cellular metabolism is a key factor in determining the fate and functions of immune cells.

Availability of nutrients within immune microenvironments Tumours have long been known to be highly glycolytic and to have a prodigious appetite for glucose, which is used to support unrestrained tumour growth and proliferation.

Consequences of altered nutrient availability: signalling and immune outputs Nutrient-restrictive microenvironments will directly impinge upon metabolic pathways in immune cells, but will also impact upon nutrient-sensitive signalling pathways important in immune regulation.

The challenge of in vivo metabolic analysis In vitro or ex vivo metabolic analyses have helped bring forth advances in our understanding of the metabolic phenotypes adopted by immune cells.

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Agreed with the previous study 29 , our results also found that NLP7 was highly expressed in leaves, central cylinder of roots and LR primordia at different stages Supplementary Fig.

S9 , implying a possible function of this gene in root development. In fact, our results revealed that overexpression of NLP7 conferred increased LR density and PR length under both high and low nitrate conditions by vertical growth assay Fig. The expression of many genes involved in root development in response to N availability, such as NRT1.

The up-regulation of these genes in the NLP7 -overexpressing plants probably contributes to the root architecture changes to some extent. Overall, these morphological changes in the root system of NLP7 -overexpressing plant enhanced its N acquisition ability to match its high-efficient N metabolism.

Plants have the ability to optimize biomass partitioning to maximize whole-plant growth rate according to the external environment These results implied that NLP7 -overexpressing plant has higher N use ability, thus leading to more tolerance to the N deficiency and more N allocated to the shoot to maximize its relative growth rate.

N and C assimilation processes are closely linked and tightly co-regulated NUE is not only dependent on N assimilation, and manipulating C metabolism was useful in some cases in improving NUE Therefore, it is reasonable to improve both the C and N utilization efficiencies simultaneously to optimize plant growth and yield.

Interestingly, we found such cooperation between N and C assimilations in the NLP7 -overexpressing plants. In addition to the increased N content Fig. Overexpression of NLP7 conferred significant higher photosynthesis rate Fig. The changed chlorophyll contents of the NLP7 -overexpressing and mutant plants Figs 1c,d and 5b may have direct influences on C fixation Fig.

Moreover, expression levels of PEPC genes and ICDH genes were found up-regulated in the NLP7 -overexpressing plants after nitrate induction Fig. Consequently, the NLP7 -overexpressing plants had much higher PEPC activities under both N-rich and -deficient conditions Fig.

According to the ChIP-chip data by Marchive et al. It has been well documented that PEPC, a key enzyme in photosynthesis, also acts as a key player in N storage and C fixation and as a crosstalk point between C and N metabolisms 21 , ICDH genes encode the key enzymes to provide 2OG necessary for ammonium assimilation In conclusion, we have demonstrated that NLP7 is potentially a promising candidate for improving plant N use ability.

The localization of NLP7 is controlled by nitrate via a nuclear retention mechanism Amount of NLP7 protein in the cytosol and nucleus may maintain a dynamic balance in response to the nitrate availability. Constitutively overexpression of NLP7 in the plant might break the normal balance of NLP7 localization between the cytosol and nucleus and promoted NLP7 protein relocation to the nucleus, especially under N-rich condition.

Being activated by nitrate signalling 27 , the nuclear accumulated NLP7 would enhance N assimilation by cooperatively modulating a number of genes related to N metabolism, transport and signalling. Consequently, the overexpression of NLP7 conferred better growth under both N-deficient and -sufficient conditions.

Moreover, overexpression of NLP7 also improved C assimilation simultaneously. Our results also imply that NLP7 -mediated nitrate regulation is not only through post-translational mechanisms, probably also through translational levels.

It is conceivable that NLP7 can be used to enhance N use ability and increase crop yield. Homozygous mutant plants were confirmed by RT-PCR using the primers NLP7 RT-PCR LP and RP.

For pNLP7:NLP7—GFP construct, a fragment containing NLP7 promoter and coding region amplified by genomic PCR with primers NLP7 -attb-LP and NLP7 -attb-RP2 was cloned into pMDC to fuse with GFP The NLP7 -overexpressing transgenic Arabidopsis were obtained by Agrobacterium -mediated floral-dip method 52 and identified by qRT-PCR with specific primers NLP7 -qPCR LP and RP.

The transgenic tobacco plants were generated as previously described 53 and identified by RT-PCR with the primers NLP7 RT-PCR LP and RP. All the primers used are listed in Table S1.

N-limited soil was the soil had been used once for Arabidopsis growth. qRT-PCR was performed with a StepOne Plus Real Time PCR System by using a TaKaRa SYBR Premix Ex Taq II reagent kit. All the primers used are shown in Table S1. The metabolite analyses were performed on the seedlings of day-old plants grown on agar medium with different concentrations of nitrate.

Total soluble protein was measured using the Bradford Protein Assay Kit Sangon Biotech, Shanghai, China and total amino acid according to Rosen Enzymes were extracted from day-old plants grown on agar medium with different concentrations of nitrate.

The maximum in vitro activities of NR was assayed as described previously GS enzyme activities was measured according to Cai et al. Photosynthesis rates were measured using a portable photosynthesis system LI-COR LIXT in the morning to AM under constant light in the greenhouse as described by Yu et al.

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Abstract Nitrogen is essential for plant survival and growth. Introduction Nitrogen N is one of the essential macronutrients for plant growth and crop productivity. Figure 1: NLP7 improves plant growth under both nitrate-rich and -poor conditions. Full size image. Figure 3: Enhanced N assimilation and nitrate uptake in NLP7 -overexpressing plants.

Figure 4: NLP7 broadly regulates the genes related to N utilization and signaling. Figure 5: NLP7 enhances photosynthesis and affects C assimilation. Table 1 Carbohydrate contents of day-old WT, nlp mutant and NLP7 -overexpressing plants grown under different nitrate conditions.

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Productive agriculture needs a Promoting effective nutrient assimilation pathways amount of expensive patgways fertilizers. Improving nitrogen use efficiency NUE of crop plants is thus of key importance. NUE definitions differ depending on whether plants Assimilatuon cultivated to Promotinh biomass or grain yields. However, for Nitric oxide and cancer prevention plant species, NUE asimilation depends on how plants extract inorganic nitrogen from the soil, assimilate nitrate and ammonium, and recycle organic nitrogen. Efforts have been made to study the genetic basis as well as the biochemical and enzymatic mechanisms involved in nitrogen uptake, assimilation, and remobilization in crops and model plants. The detection of the limiting factors that could be manipulated to increase NUE is the major goal of such research. An overall examination of the physiological, metabolic, and genetic aspects of nitrogen uptake, assimilation and remobilization is presented in this review. Nutritious foods are essential for Autophagy and nutrient sensing health and development. However, malnutrition and hidden hunger pathdays to Promoting effective nutrient assimilation pathways a challenge Promoting effective nutrient assimilation pathways. In most developing egfective, access to adequate and nutritious food continues ecfective be a challenge. Although hidden hunger is less prevalent in developed countries compared to developing countries where iron Fe and zinc Zn deficiencies are common. The United Nations UN 2nd Sustainable Development Goal was set to eradicate malnutrition and hidden hunger. Hidden hunger has led to numerous cases of infant and maternal mortalities, and has greatly impacted growth, development, cognitive ability, and physical working capacity.

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In this section, we revisit basic aspects mutrient nutrients and their interactions with crop assimmilation edaphic factors, to nutrieht the foundation for arriving at novel assimillation. For pahways normal growth, Promohing require 14 nutriet elements in different amounts Table 1.

Pfomoting mineral elements, though effwctive essential for plant growth, but which could be beneficial, include cobalt, aswimilation, silicon and sodium. Table 1 also presents Valid HTML and CSS code amounts assinilation each of the essential nutrients required for Promoying for a generic plant, as well as their levels in one ton of crop seed, using maize kernel as an example.

The table further presents the currently known chemical forms and mechanisms by which the nutrients are taken up by plants, factors that influence their bioavailability such as pH Lucas and Davisand their uptake interaction with other nutrients Marschner Given the similarity in the uptake forms e.

as ions of some elements, it is vital to understand the antagonistic and synergistic interactions that may occur during uptake from the soil. This is important for producing fertilisers with specific compositions that are efficient for crop production.

Antagonism occurs among most nutrients but appears to have been more examined among the micronutrients. Collectively, the uptake by plants of nutrient elements is directed by multiple transporters, many of which transport more than one nutrient type.

For example, although the iron-regulated transporter Irt is induced primarily by Fe deficiency, it transports Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn and possibly other divalent cations into the plant Sinclair and Krämer Thus, the potential of sharing similar uptake and transport systems by these ions results in competition among them, leading to antagonism.

For instance, Zn inhibited both the bioavailability in the rhizosphere and plant uptake of Fe and Mn by bean, while Cu also influenced Zn, Fe, Mn and Ca contents in shoot Dimkpa et al. Similarly, Fe treatment reduced the uptake of Mn, Zn and Cu in the xylem sap of barley Alam et al. Notably, such antagonism is not limited to soil-root uptake pathways, given that a foliar application of Fe also diminished Mn, Zn and Cu uptake in wheat Ghasemi-Fasaei and Ronaghi Antagonism among nutrient elements often occurs when the ratio of elements are unbalanced.

It seems plausible that transporters, when presented with a mixture of nutrients composed of ions that they transport, would preferentially transport more of the more abundant nutrient, inhibiting the uptake of the less abundant minerals as observed in Arabidopsis for Mn vs.

Fe, and in bean for Zn vs. Fe and Mn Yang et al. Similar to antagonistic interactions among nutrient elements, synergism in nutrient uptake also has been demonstrated. Synergism between P and Mn, as well as between K and Mn, and Mg and Ca, is observed in barley, with increasing P application Matula The occurrence of antagonism or synergism among nutrients demonstrates how fertiliser formulations of specific nutrient composition can influence the overall nutrition of plants.

Therefore, these phenomena ought to be considered when nutrients are formulated into fertilisers, so that compatible nutrients can be leveraged, while antagonistic ones are excluded. In view of the potentially vast impact of fertilisers on food and the environment, Conijn et al.

One approach in the 4R Nutrient Stewardship could be to synchronise the allocation of fertiliser types to soil types and weather conditions that could be identified with generic crop and soil modelling approaches. Systematic analyses of agro-ecosystems, with crop models as one tool, have allowed deeper understanding of the production ecological processes and functioning of these systems Van Ittersum and Rabbinge These findings have governed agricultural investments in developed nations, with current average wheat yield in the Netherlands of over 9.

Crop modelling is being used to identify fertiliser requirements to attain desired yield levels, but the poor resolution of soil data Leenaars ; Hengl et al. Complementing this approach with geo-spatial analysis based on soil testing and agronomic fertiliser trials would allow for analysing the direct relation between soil properties and the real effects of nutrients on yield, under given management practices.

We recommend this integrated approach with initial research. Soil and plant diagnostic tools, such as mobile spectrometers Shepherd and Walsh and quick assessment kits, should become an integral part of fine-tuning fertiliser recommendations to soil type, and as guide to producers, traders and users, for targeting the most relevant fertiliser types to their regions and production systems.

However, while many claims are made about new devices that rapidly measure soil properties, interpretation may appear cumbersome, as soil properties can be measured in different ways and the relevance of the data is likely to be crop-and environment-specific.

This scenario calls for harmonisation and standardisation of data and methodologies. Also, instant methods for the assessment of nutrient contents of fertilisers are essential to prevent adulteration yet with daunting challenges e.

Perumal et al. We opine that the gap between the intended fertiliser functionality and their actual impact arises from the fact that fertilisers are made by chemists, chemical engineers and industrial processing technologists, following laws of physical and chemical processes, with little input from the knowledge of plant physiology and need for agro-ecological specificity of crop nutrition.

A renewed impetus is, therefore, needed, to arrive at novel ways of packaging and delivering nutrients to plants, based on a better integration of the plant physiological and ecological processes related to the different modes of nutrient uptake, transport and metabolism.

This should be harmonised with timing and quantities of nutrient required for the physiological growth processes, comparable to the packaging and administration of nutrients to humans, in sync with our metabolism. Dependent on environmental conditions, crop specie, developmental stage and health status, plants differentially take up, transport, allocate and assign nutrients different organs.

However, knowledge of the various uptake mechanisms and pathways, whether soil or aerially, has not been adequately harnessed to increase our understanding of the acquisition of nutrients by different food crops for the purpose of targeted and plant-specific fertiliser strategies.

Here, we argue that a more unified knowledge of nutrient biochemical pathways in plants could help in targeting nutrient delivery to where most required and could facilitate further development of viable alternative uptake mechanisms such as foliar fertilisers Voogt et al.

In addition, understanding the ability of plants to increase their nutrient storage capacity could help to increase uptake, yield and food quality Sinclair and Rufty Uptake of nutrient elements as charged ions implies that active transport by proteins is required to move them across the root cell membrane.

Considering that sugars are produced in the leaves prior to root delivery, the form of N applied to crops could cause differential responses in the plant under different environmental conditions Moritsugu et al.

In high-temperature agro-ecological conditions, leaf sugar would be metabolised at a faster rate due to temperature-induced increase in respiration, resulting in less sugar being availed the root for conversion into derived products.

Thus, dependent on environmental conditions, specific plant physiologies should be leveraged to target fertiliser types to crops. As indicated, the role of micronutrients in influencing plant growth and yield, even in the presence of adequate NPK, is becoming increasingly obvious, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the nutrient-poor soils of many African countries Vanlauwe et al.

The uptake of some ionic micronutrients from the soil is preceded by their biological conversion to forms amenable for root uptake. Although both the reductase and phytosiderophore systems are induced in response to Fe deficiency, they are non-specific enough to competitively permit the uptake of other mineral nutrients such as Mn, Zn and Cu Schaaf et al.

Yet, current fertiliser formulations with micronutrients involve their amendment into the main NPK fertilisers, with little, if any, concern about the fate of competing micronutrients in the formulations. Given the role of micronutrients in crop yield and quality, the influence of specific plant-nutrient physiology on the use efficiency of micronutrient fertiliser formulations deserves not only continuous but also unified research.

Furthermore, the role of specific plant root exudates organic acids, phytosiderophores and reductants in influencing nutrient availability to plants should be rigorously explored as a step not only towards crop-specific fertiliser production but also for integrated soil fertility management practices, such as selecting crop species for beneficial intercropping Badri and Vivanco ; Zuo and Zhang ; Berendsen et al.

Obviously, a clearer understanding of the physiology surrounding plant nutrition should permit the identification of a range of nutrient delivery strategies that ensure both instantaneous plant uptake and administration of the relevant nutrient. As illustrated below Fig.

Figure 1 illustrates how the currently fragmented fertilisation regimes could be integrated into a comprehensive system that considers different and complementary fertilisation pathways.

In such a system, field soil or seed-specific nutrient content determinations should direct subsequent application of fertilisers. Consequently, fertilisers for soil application or seed coating should be selected based on their content of nutrients that promote early germination and root growth Smit et al.

In essence, nutrients should be applied to plant areas where they are most physiologically relevant. Soil properties dictate to a very large degree the responses of crops to nutrient elements.

The pH of a soil, for example, can determine the extent to which a nutrient is available to plants Marschner Change in pH induced by a fertiliser treatment could also complicate the situation: The alkaline nature of some urea-micronutrient mixed fertilisers could impede nutrient solubility and, therefore, availability, as observed for Zn amended to urea Milani et al.

However, N-fertilisers that acidify the rhizosphere would be suitable for alkaline soils where Fe, Zn and Mn availability are limited. Yet, in many production systems, different fertilisers are applied to soil without proper consideration of soil pH, or the effects of the applied fertiliser on soil pH and thus the availability of other nutrients.

Fortunately, plants can adapt to soil properties in order to enhance their ability to dissolve and take up nutrients from the soil. These adaptations may feature anatomical, morphological or physiological characteristics in specific environments such as nutrient-poor soils Aerts Morphologically, roots may develop high competitive ability for nutrient uptake through extensive rooting systems.

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Xylem sap samples were dilluted in a rate of For the determination of anion content, colorimetric assays were conducted using a microplate spectrophotometer reader Omega SPECTROstar, BMG LABTECH GmbH, Germany. Total N accumulation TNA was calculated as the result of TNC multiplied by total DW as described in Rubio-Wilhelmi et al. Frozen leaf tissues were ground in a chilled mortar with 1 mL of extract buffer pH 7. Homogenate was centrifuged for 20 min at 30, g. The upper fraction was used to quantify nitrate reductase NR; EC 1. For glutamine synthetase GS; EC 6. Homogenate was centrifuged at 30, g for 20 min. Supernatant was used for colorimetric and kinetic assays GS and AAT, respectively , based on methods described by Wallsgrove et al. All these activities are shown in Figure S1. Protein assay was done according to the colorimetric method Bradford using bovine serum albumin BSA as standard. The mixture was stirred for 30 minutes at room temperature and centrifuged at 8, g for 10 minutes. Samples were derivatized by reaction with diethyl ethoxymethylenemalonate and analyzed by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography as described by Megías et al. Total RNA was extracted from ground leaf samples using TRIsure reagent procedure BIOLINE, London, UK. One µg of total RNA was used as a template for first strand cDNA synthesis in a 10 μl reaction using the iScript cDNA synthesis kit BIO-RAD, Hercules, CA, USA. Diluted cDNA was used as a template for gene expression level quantification by quantitative real-time reverse transcription Q-RT -PCR. PCR was carried out with previously designed gene-specific primers Tables S1 , S2. Data were analysed using the Bio-Rad CFX Manager software. Six biological replicates and two technical repeats were used per treatment in every run. All mRNA levels were calculated from threshold cycle values and normalized with respect to the transcript level of the housekeeping genes NtL25 Nitab4. Reactions were performed on two independent RNA batches and results were comparable in the different assays. After fixation, fragments were dehydrated through graded alcohols and embedded in Epon resin Epoxy Embedding Medium, Sigma. Sections were cut with an ultramicrotome Reichert-Jung Ultracut with a diamond knife and mounted on nickel grids. The Shapiro—Wilk W test was used to verify the normality of the datasets; and the Levene test to determine the homogeneity of variance. Each variable assayed was analysed using one-way Analysis of variance ANOVA or multivariate ANOVA MANOVA including treatments as grouping factors. Whether homogeneity of variance or normality was not reached after data transformation, non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA was followed by post hoc Mann-Whitney U test. These nutritional replacements did not induce nutritional deficiencies since no symptoms of wilting, bronzing or chlorosis were observed Table S3 ; Figure S4. However, no significant differences were found in leaf biomass between 2CL and 6CL treatments. The results showed that the increased total biomass was mainly due to higher growth of root and leaf organs i. e, stem and flowers values Figure 1. No differences in the root:shoot ratio were found between treatments Figure 1D. A Total dry weight DW ; B total leaf DW; C total root DW; and D root:shoot ratio are shown. DW, dry weight. Results showed no significant differences in the total N content per biomass unit TNC between the three nutritional treatments 0CL, 2CL and 6CL. Statistics in B was calculated through ANOVA. The dotted line represents the normalized activity in 0CL plants. Proteins and their elemental units, amino acids, are the major components and sources of organic N in plants. In addition, no significant differences in the content of alanine, cysteine, histidine, leucine, lysine, phenylalanine, threonine, tyrosine and valine were found Figure 5C. A Total proteins content; B Total free amino acids content; C Amino acids profile. Given the tetraploid nature of N. tabacum genome, we conceived three different SHMT candidate genes according to the homology in their A. Furthermore, TEM micrographs showed a higher association of organelles involved in photorespiration i. C Transmission electron micrographs showing the ultrastucture of leaf mesophys cells. Organelles that contribute to photorespiration were labelled as M, mitochondrion; P, peroxisome; C, chloroplast;. Both anions share similar physical properties in solution and show strong dynamic interactions in land plants, playing important roles in charge balance and cell osmoregulation Wege et al. Plants utilize metabolic energy to take up nutrients from the soil. To do so, plant cells include semi-permeable plasmatic membranes with transmembrane protein channels for the intake of nutrients. In agriculture, N fertilization represents a major bottleneck for crop yield due to its well-known crucial role in plant growth and metabolic processes. The high energy cost for the synthesis of N fertilizers, as well as its intrinsic mobility in the complex atmosphere-plant-soil system, have highlighted the environmental drawbacks of the unsustainable N use in agriculture Rothstein, ; Keeney and Hatfield, ; Garnett et al. Therefore, NUE parameters specifically NUE and NU T E are considered important crop traits and a potential tool to reduce the abusive use of N fertilizers or to improve plant growth when low N is available Baligar et al. From all N forms, organic N represents the main component of TNC in plants, being a crucial element to estimate NUE. This finding could be interpreted as the pool of soluble amino acids is optimized with N assimilation and C fixation by the RuBisCO activity to increase the synthesis of proteins. These results are in line with those reported by Findenegg et al. Thereby, the analysis of the free amino acids profile can confer new perspectives to elucidate possible metabolic adjustments which remained unknown Florencio-Ortiz et al. From the amino acids studied, arginine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glutamine, Gly, isoleucine and proline were decreased in 6CL plants, which is consistent with the decline of total amino acids content. The significant reduction of aspartic acid to synthesize asparagine might directly affect other aspartate-derived amino acids such as methionine, threonine, isoleucine, and lysine Azevedo et al. The conversion of glutamine to glutamic acid and vice versa represents the core of the N assimilation pathway, as the α-amino group of glutamic acid is transferred to other amino acids by the action of multispecific aminotransferases Forde and Lea, ; Bender, Additionally, photorespiration provides intermediates and reduced equivalents for the Krebs cycle and it is a sink for ROS elimination and energy dissipation to photoinhibition avoidance Wingler et al. Then, the depletion of the photorespiration pathway could strongly condition plant survival, being suggested as a target for molecular genetic engineering in agriculture to improve crop yield Betti et al. Consistently, Busch et al. Thus, photorespiration favors the metabolism of N, C and sulfur, generating Ser i. The physical association between chloroplasts, peroxisomes, and mitochondria is important in the regulation of the photorespiratory process Rivero et al. 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