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G F Krause

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PubMed1968

Efficiency of nitrous acid as an inactivating and mutagenic agent of intact tobacco mosaic virus and its isolated nucleic acid.

When tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and its isolated nucleic acid (TMV-RNA) were treated with nitrous acid, the nucleic acid was inactivated six times faster than the intact virus. Inactivation of both the infectious entities was exponential with treatment time to 0.1% level of survival. Eight different mutant phenotypes were scored after inactivation of TMV and TMV-RNA to 50, 10, 1.0, and 0.1% survival levels. Significantly more mutants in relation to unaltered isolates were induced at all levels of survival upon nitrous acid treatment of TMV than of TMV-RNA. Furthermore, the proportion of two specific mutant phenotypes was significantly greater in treated TMV than in treated TMV-RNA. No qualitative differences, however, were observed between the mutational spectra of nitrous acid-treated TMV and TMV-RNA. These results indicate that, in the intact virus, the viral capsid protects some of the sites involved in lethality; thus, proportionately more mutants are induced on nitrous acid treatment of TMV versus TMV-RNA.

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Total nitrogen determination of various sample types: a comparison of the Hach, Kjeltec, and Kjeldahl methods.

Conventional Kjeldahl analysis with modifications, Kjeltec analysis with block digestion and semiautomated distillation, and the Hach method for determining nitrogen (N) were compared using a wide range of samples. Twenty different sample types were ground and mixed. Each sample type was divided into 5 subsamples which were analyzed for N by each of the 3 methods. In each sample type, differences (P less than 0.05) were detected among the 3 N determination methods in 5 of the 20 N sources analyzed. The mean N content over all 20 samples was higher with Kjeldahl analysis (P less than 0.05) than with Kjeltec, while Hach analysis produced intermediate results. Results also indicated that the Hach procedure had the greatest ability to detect differences in N content among sample types, being more sensitive than either other method (P less than 0.05).

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