Abstract
A fiber optic spectrophotometric system was used to monitor the in vivo oxygenation of leghemoglobin in intact, attached soybean root nodules (Glycine max L. Merr. x USDA 16 Bradyrhizobium japonicum) which were flattened during development by growth in narrow, glass-walled cuvettes. When equilibrated at an external pO(2) of 20 kilopascals, leghemoglobin was 36.6 +/- 5.4% oxygenated, a value estimated to represent an infected cell O(2) concentration of 21.5 nanomolar. Increasing the external pO(2) from 20 to 25 kilopascals caused a rapid increase in leghemoglobin oxygenation, followed by a recovery to the initial level, all within 7.5 minutes. At 25 kilopascals O(2), the rates of H(2) and CO(2) evolution were similar to those at 20 kilopascals. Since respiration had not increased, the results support the proposal that nodules adapt to increased external pO(2) by regulating their resistance to O(2) diffusion.
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