Hop-off hop-on: Assimilates on the road

• Published in: Journal of plant physiology Vol. 266; p. 153509
• Main Author: Stadler, Ruth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Elsevier GmbH 01.11.2021; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Amino acids; Amino Acids - metabolism; Biological Transport; exports; imports; Long-distance transport; Nutrition; Phloem; Phloem - metabolism; plant physiology; Plants - metabolism; Plasmodesmata; Solutes; Sugar; Sugar transporter; Sugars - metabolism; Xylem; Long-distance transport; Sugar transporter; Phloem; Xylem; Plasmodesmata

Solutes are subject of constant release and retrieval processes during long distance transport in higher plants. In the stem, sugars and amino acids are used for storage or for nutrition of parenchymatic tissues. Modification of export/import capacities along the transport phloem might provide a pow...