Solute Uptake in Plants: A Flow/Force Interpretation

摘要: Rates of uptake silicic acid as a function its concentration by the roots various plants have been interpreted their authors in framework top-down approach based on theoretical model Michaelis and Menten. Although hyperbola was fitted to set experimental points, this does not prove that all simplifying assumptions underlying Michaelis-Menten transport were warranted. In consequence, V j m - K -values, which inferred from these experiments, may characterize carrier mol- ecules involved process way -values classical enzymes (V = rate when carriers are saturated trans- ported substrate, 1/K affinity for substrate). Since measurements dealt only with solute entire biological systems (plant present case), here we adopt "top-top" approach. The idea is