1993. Calcium transport across plasma membrane vesicles isolated from shoots of Stellaria media and Avena sativa. -Physiol. Plant. 89: 731-740.Plasma membrane vesicles (ca 40% inside-out, after one freeze-thaw cycle) were extracted and purified from the shoots of oat (Avena sativa L.) and chickweed (Stellaria media L ) using the two-phase aqueous polymer technique. In the presence of ATP or GTP a rapid uptake of -^' Ca^^ occurred (0.77 and 0.62 nmol Ca-+ mg' protein, for ATP and GTP, respectively, in oat, and 0.53 and 0.51 nmol Ca-+ mg"' protein, for ATP and GTP respectively, in chickweed). Nucleotide-dependent Ca-^-transport was sensitive to 1 [xM Erythrosin B (with ATP, inhibited by 52% in oat and in chickweed by 72%; with GTP inhibition was similar in both species at ca 67%); ATP-dependent uptake was greater in oat than in chickweed, but not stimulated by calmodulin. Addition of the calcium ionophore A-23187 resulted in the release of label from the vesicles (41% and 63% release with ATP and 24% and 52% release with GTP, in oat and chickweed, respectively). The results obtained suggest that Ca^^-transport is independent of the proton pump. In oat, kinetic data indicate a discontinuity m the absorption isotherm at 10 | JLM free calcium.