During ammonium assimilation, requires two enzymes converting ammonium to amino acids. Each of which is Glutamine synthetase (GS), given below some statements about GS ;

a) GS transfers the amide group of glutamine to 2-oxoglutarate, yielding two molecules of glutamate

b) it requires a divalent cation such as Mg2+, Mn2+, or Co2+ as a cofactor

c) Plants contain two classes of GS, one in the cytosol and the other in root plastids or shoot chloroplasts

d) The cytosolic forms are expressed in germinating seeds or in the vascular bundles of roots and shoots and produce glutamate for intercellular nitrogen transport

e) The GS in root plastids generates amide nitrogen for local consumption; the GS in shoot chloroplasts reassimilates photorespiratory NH4+

f) Light and carbohydrate levels alter the expression of the cytosolic forms of the enzyme, but they have little effect on the plastid forms.

Which of the following statements is correct?

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Bacteria can convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, Several form symbiotic associations with higher plants is given below;

               HOST PLANT                                                                          N-FIXING SYMBIONTS

A) Gunnera                                                                            i) Frankia

      B) Azolla                                                                                ii) Acetobacter

C) Leguminous                                                                     iii) Azospirillum

             D) Actinorhizal                                                                      iv) Nostoc

             E) Sugarcane                                                                         v) Anabaena

             F) Miscanthus                                                                       vi) Sinorhizobium

Which of the following combination with the host plants and n-fixing symbionts is CORRECT?

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Free-living bacteria that are capable of fixing nitrogen are aerobic, facultative, or anaerobic. Some of the Aerobic nitrogen-fixing bacteria such as

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Which type of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria are thought to maintain a low oxygen concentration (microaerobic conditions) through their high levels of respiration

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Rhizobial genes that participate in nodule formation are called nodulation (nod) genes. Only one of the nod genes, the regulatory and constitutively expressed and regulates the transcription of the other nod genes;

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Where the first LysM receptor kinases were identified in,

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Nod factor as signaling agents binds with the nod factor receptor NFR on the basis for host–symbiont specificity, which of the following is incorrect?