Sucrose is produced in, and translocated from, photosynthetically active leaves (sources) to support non-photosynthetic tissues (sinks), such as developing seeds, fruits, and tubers. Different plants ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Confirming a previous analysis by Lang (1974), it is concluded that in tree trunks, phloem turgor and turgor gradients may be estimated from ...
Figure 1: Passive phloem loading in plants and in the synthetic tree-on-a-chip. Using our synthetic passive loader, we study in this paper the full dynamics of passive phloem loading, set by the ...