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The nitrate assimilatory pathway has been the matter of intensive gene
tic and molecular analysis over the past decade. This review will deal
with studies that were performed on the first 3 steps of the pathway,
namely nitrate uptake, nitrate reduction and nitrite reduction. A lar
ge part of this review will focus on the complex regulation of this pa
thway and on recent results obtained on transcriptional and post-trans
criptional mechanisms governing the expression of the key proteins und
er different physiological conditions.