<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vriezen, J A C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">de Bruijn, F J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nüsslein, K</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Desiccation responses and survival of Sinorhizobium meliloti USDA 1021 in relation to growth phase, temperature, chloride and sulfate availability.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lett Appl Microbiol</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lett. Appl. Microbiol.</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bacteriological Techniques</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chlorides</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Desiccation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Models, Biological</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sinorhizobium meliloti</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sulfur Oxides</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Temperature</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006 Feb</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">42</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">172-8</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">AIMS: To identify physical and physiological conditions that affect the survival of Sinorhizobium meliloti USDA 1021 during desiccation.

METHODS AND RESULTS: An assay was developed to study desiccation response of S. meliloti USDA 1021 over a range of environmental conditions. We determined the survival during desiccation in relation to (i) matrices and media, (ii) growth phase, (iii) temperature, and (iv) chloride and sulfate availability.

CONCLUSIONS: This study indicates that survival of S. meliloti USDA 1021 during desiccation is enhanced: (i) when cells were dried in the stationary phase, (ii) with increasing drying temperature at an optimum of 37 degrees C, and (iii) during an increase of chloride and sulfate, but not sodium or potassium availability. In addition, we resolved that the best matrix to test survival was nitrocellulose filters.

SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: The identification of physical and physiological factors that determine the survival during desiccation of S. meliloti USDA 1021 may aid in (i) the strategic development of improved seed inocula, (ii) the isolation, and (iii) the development of rhizobial strains with improved ability to survive desiccation. Furthermore, this work may provide insights into the survival of rhizobia under drought conditions.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16441384?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kahn, T</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bosch, J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Levitt, M F</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Goldstein, M H</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Effect of sodium nitrate loading on electrolyte transport by the renal tubule.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Am J Physiol</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Am. J. Physiol.</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Animals</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bicarbonates</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Biological Transport</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chlorides</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chlorothiazide</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diuresis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dogs</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Electrolytes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ethacrynic Acid</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Glomerular Filtration Rate</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hydrogen-Ion Concentration</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kidney Tubules</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nitrates</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Potassium</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sodium</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sodium Chloride</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Urine</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1975</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1975 Sep</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">229</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">746-53</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Effects of sodium nitrate were compared with sodium chloride loading on transport of electrolytes by the nephron. Maximal levels of free water clearance/clomerular filtration rate (CH2O/GFR) averaged 8.4% with nitrate loading and 14.4% with saline loading. Since ethacrynic acid and chlorothiazide exert their major natriuretic effect in the distal nephron, the increment in Na ad Cl reabsorbed beyond the proximal tubule. The administration of these agents resulted in an increase in fractional sodium excretion (CNa/GFR) of 21.1%, urinary sodium excretion (UNaV) of 1,126 mueq/min, and urinary chloride excretion (UClV) of 848 mueq/min during nitrate loading compared with an increase in CNa/GFR of 37.6%, UNaV of 2,362 mueq/min, and UClV of 2,397 mueq/min during saline loading. The smaller diuretic-induced increment in Na and Cl excretion in the nitrate studies suggests, as do the hydrated studies, that less Cl and Na are reabsorbed in the distal nephron during nitrate than saline loading. At every level of UNaV, fractional bicarbonate reabsorption was higher, urine pH was lower, and urinary potassium excretion (UKV) was higher in the nitrate studies. Thus, compared with saline loading, sodium nitrate decreases chloride and sodium reabsorption in the distal nephron. The higher hydrogen and potassium secretion in the nitrate studies may be consequent to the decreased ability of the distal nephron to reabsorb chloride.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2016?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record></records></xml>