regulation of nitrate assimilation
Any process that modulates the rate, frequency, or extent of the uptake, from the environment, of nitrates, inorganic or organic salts and esters of nitric acid and the subsequent reduction of nitrate ion to other, less highly oxidized, inorganic nitrogenous substances.
GO:0062012
regulation of small molecule metabolic process
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GO:0042128
nitrate assimilation
regulates