Structural and Physiological Changes in Sugar Beet Leaves during Sink to Source Conversion 1

AUTOR(ES)

Fellows, Robert J.

RESUMO

The onset of export during leaf development was correlated with changes in metabolism and ultrastructure and with patterns of solute distribution in the developing seventh leaf of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) in order to study the cause of initiation of translocation. Infrared gas analysis of carbon dioxide uptake showed a broad peak for net photosynthesis dm−2 at 35 to 40% final laminar length. Pulse labeling with 14CO2 demonstrated that maximum import of translocate occurred at 25% final laminar length; export was first observed at 35% final laminar length. Between 40 and 50% final laminar length a rapid increase in amount of export occurred, primarily as a result of the increase in the area of leaf which was exporting. Whole leaf autoradiography revealed that onset of phloem loading spread basipetally from the leaf tip; loading was initiated at about 22% final laminar length and was essentially complete by 50% final laminar length. Those areas which clearly exhibited loading no longer imported from other parts of the plant while the area in transition still appeared to import label from source regions.

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