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Environmental and Stress Physiology

Enhanced Net K⁺ Uptake Capacity of NaCl-Adapted Cells ¹

Institute of Field and Garden Crops, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, P.O. Box 6, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel, Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Department of Horticulture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907

Maintenance of intracellular K⁺ concentrations that are not growth-limiting, in an environment of high Na⁺, is characteristic of NaCl-adapted cells of the glycophyte, tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum/gossii). These cells exhibited a substantially greater uptake of ⁸⁶Rb⁺ (i.e. an indicator of K⁺) relative to unadapted cells. Potassium uptake into NaCl-adapted cells was 1.5-fold greater than unadapted cells at 0 NaCl and 3.5-fold greater when cells were exposed to 160 millimolar NaCl. The difference in net K⁺ uptake between unadapted and NaCl-adapted cells was due primarily to higher rates of entry rather than to reduced K⁺ leakage. Presumably, enhanced K⁺ uptake into adapted cells is a result of electrophoretic flux, and a component of uptake may be linked to vanadate-sensitive H⁺ extrusion.

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