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Grafting reveals organ-autonomous and feedback roles of root phloem development in source-sink dynamics.
Journal of experimental botany - 15 Apr 2026
Bartusch Kai, Schreier Tina B, Fischer-Stettler Michaela, Zeeman Samuel C, Truernit Elisabeth
Abstract excerpt
Carbon fixed in source leaves is partitioned between local use and long-distance transport through the phloem to heterotrophic sinks such as roots. Here, we investigated how mild defects in sink phloem differentiation influence whole-plant growth using two Arabidopsis mutants: ops, which exhibits short roots with protophloem differentiation defects, and ops opl2, which displays even shorter roots with combined...
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