nitrate reduction

traitmech:000134 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A metabolism in which an organism reduces nitrate, whether for energy conservation or for assimilation into biomass.

Trait evidence (1)

DOI:10.1128/JB.181.21.6573-6584.1999
Nitrate reduction can be performed with three different purposes

Moreno-Vivian et al. review prokaryotic nitrate reduction across nitrate assimilation, nitrate respiration, and nitrate dissimilation.

Provenance

Identifier source: TraitMech local identifier
Definition source: DOI:10.1126/science.aaf4507

Parent traits (1)

metabolism METPO:1000060

Children (1)

nitrate respiration traitmech:000122

Synonyms (1)

nitrate_reduction RELATED_SYNONYM · DOI:10.1126/science.aaf4507

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Curation history

2026-09-08T00:00:00Z · PROPOSED_FROM_RESEARCH · codex
Proposed a DOI-backed FAPROTAX metabolic capability from proposals/metpo_traitmech_v11 after repository-wide duplicate review.