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Phloem loading in Verbascum phoeniceum L. depends on the synthesis of raffinose-family oligosaccharides.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 4 Dec 2007
McCaskill Ashlee, Turgeon Robert
Abstract excerpt
Phloem loading is the initial step in photoassimilate export and the one that creates the driving force for mass flow. It has been proposed that loading occurs symplastically in species that translocate carbohydrate primarily as raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs). In these plants, dense fie...
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