Progress in Botany / Volume 62 (Progress in Botany)
Contributors: K. Esser (Editor); U. Luttge (Editor); J. W. Kadereit (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: February 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9783540675518
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Botany (General); Science; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; General; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Botany; Botanik; Botany; Cell Biology; Ecology; Genetics, Plants; Genetik, Pflanzen; Geobotanik; Geobotany; Medical / General; Morphologie, Pflanzen; Morphology, Plants; Physiologie, Pflanzen; Physiology, Plants
First sentence: Fifty years ago botanists were convinced that the photosynthetically produced sucrose in the green leaves of autotrophic plants is transported into the sieve elements and translocated via the symplast to the sinks, where it is used to make cytoplasm and carbohydrates, especially those of the cell walls.