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Sucrose transporter1 functions in phloem loading in maize leaves.
Journal of experimental botany - 1 Jan 2009
Slewinski Thomas L, Meeley Robert, Braun David M
Abstract excerpt
In most plants, sucrose is exported from source leaves to carbon-importing sink tissues to sustain their growth and metabolism. Apoplastic phloem-loading species require sucrose transporters (SUTs) to transport sucrose into the phloem. In many dicot plants, genetic and biochemical evidence has established that SUT1-type proteins function in phloem loading. However, the role of SUT1 in phloem loading in monocot...
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