The Haemoglobin/Nitric Oxide Cycle: Involvement in Flooding Stress and Effects on Hormone Signalling
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Class 1 haemoglobins (Hbs) are induced in plant cells under hypoxic conditions. They have a high affinity for oxygen, which is two orders of magnitude lower than that of cytochrome oxidase, permitting the utilization of oxygen by the molecule at extremely low oxygen concentrations. Their presence reduces the levels of nitric oxide (NO) that is produced from nitrate ion during hypoxia and improves the redox and energy status of the hypoxic cell. SCOPE: The mechanism by which Hb interacts with NO under hypoxic conditions in plants is examined, and the effects of Hb expression on metabolism and signal transduction are discussed. CONCLUSIONS: The accumulated evidence suggests that a metabolic pathway involving NO and Hb provides an alternative type of respiration to mitochondrial electron transport under limited oxygen. Hb in hypoxic plants acts as part of a soluble, terminal, NO dioxygenase system, yielding nitrate ion from the reaction of oxyHb with NO. NO is mainly formed due to anaerobic accumulation of nitrite. The overall reaction sequence, referred to as the Hb/NO cycle, consumes NADH and maintains ATP levels via an as yet unknown mechanism. Hb gene expression appears to influence signal transduction pathways, possibly through its effect on NO, as evidenced by phenotypic changes in normoxic Hb-varying transgenic plants. Ethylene levels are elevated when Hb gene expression is suppressed, which could be a factor leading to root aerenchyma formation during hypoxic stress.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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