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Source-Sink Relations: The Role of Sucrose

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Photosynthesis and the Environment

Part of the book series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration ((AIPH,volume 5))

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We examine the idea that sucrose plays a central role in control of plant growth beyond that of substrate and product. The extended hypothesis we discuss is that sucrose can regulate source metabolism by down-regulating genes encoding proteins involved with photosynthesis, and sink metabolism by up-regulating genes encoding proteins involved with sucrose hydrolysis and growth. The rates of turnover, and of changes of pool size, of sucrose render it suitable for temporally integrating changes in the environment, or within the plant itself, over a period of hours to a few days. While much evidence can be adduced to support the extended hypothesis, a great deal of it is essentially correlational and we still lack the details of a mechanism by which sucrose status might modulate gene expression.

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Pollock, C.J., Farrar, J.F. (1996). Source-Sink Relations: The Role of Sucrose. In: Baker, N.R. (eds) Photosynthesis and the Environment. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48135-9_10

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