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Waxy cuticle function

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  • Reduces water loss

* Reduces gas exchange in epidermis

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What are palisade cells?

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  • Main photosynthetic cells
  • Elongated at right angles to surface
  • Densely packed
  • Usually one layer so light is able to pass to cells before
  • Contains many chloroplasts
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What is spongy mesophyll?

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  • Loosely packed photosynthetic cells
  • Contain fewer chloroplasts
  • Gas exchange across cell surface
  • Cell walls moist to facilitate gas exchange but results in water loss
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What are guard cells?

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  • Change shape to open and close stomata
  • Inner wall inelastic compared to outer wall
  • Contain chloroplasts
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What is the upper epidermis?

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  • Transparent layer of flattened cells so light can pass through
  • No chloroplasts
  • Prevents mechanical damage
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What are chloroplasts?

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  • Organelle where photosynthesis occurs

* Able to move towards light

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What’s included in the vascular bundle?

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Xylem and phloem

This is where mass flow occurs

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Xylem function

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Transpiration - water and mineral ions to leaves

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Phloem function

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Translocation - sucrose to other areas

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What are stomata?

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  • Pores in lower surface allow gas exchange with atmosphere
  • Water vapour also lost
  • Opens in response to light intensity
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Intercellular spaces function

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Air spaces allow diffusion of gases throughout the leaf

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What is symbol equation for aerobic respiration?

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6O2 + C6H12O6 -> 6CO2 + 6H2O

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What is the symbol equation for photosynthesis?

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6CO2 + 6H2O -> C6H12O6 + 6O2

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What are the organs of gas exchange and photosynthesis?

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Leaves

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Leaf adaptations for CO2 absorption

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  • Thin - short diffusion distance
  • Large S.A - air spaces for diffusion
  • Air spaces also increase S.A of cells in contact with air
  • Cells are moist - gas can dissolve
  • Cuticle reduces water loss and gas exchange
  • Stomata allow water vapour and gases to diffuse in and out of leaf
  • Guard cells close stomata to reduce transpiration if risk of wilting
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Leaf adaptations for light absorption

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  • Thin, flat, large S.A - intercept light
  • Able to move to intercept light
  • Palisade cells elongated and densely arranged under upper epidermis
  • Many chloroplasts which can move towards light
  • Light able to pass through spongy mesophyll and leaves below
  • Xylem provides water
  • Phloem removes products of photosynthesis
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What are sclerenchyma fibres?

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  • Thickened walls due to lignin
  • Cells are dead - lignin is impermeable
  • Provides mechanical support
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What are parenchyma fibres?

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  • Unspecialised plant cells
  • Unthickened walls and provide the packing around other tissues
  • Able to store food
  • Turgidity provides support
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What are collenchyma fibres?

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  • Living cells reinforced by addition of extra cellulose
  • Often Found below epidermis
  • Provide extra mechanical support
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Function of lignin in xylem walls

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  • Strength - withstand pressures of water transport

* Impermeable - protoplasm dies, cells become hollow, little resistance for water flow

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Function of pits in xylem

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Non-lignified areas so water passes sideways between plasmodesmata of xylem vessels

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Function of tracheids in xylem

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  • Elongated cells with tapering ends
  • Conduct water, but less well adapted than other vessels
  • No open ends - water passes from cell to cell via pits
  • Found in finest branches of xylem in the leaves and the roots
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Function of fibres in xylem

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  • Similar to sclerenchyma fibres

* Provides support

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Function of parenchyma in xylem

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Packing tissue that keeps other xylem elements in place

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What is transpiration?

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Loss of water from the surface of land plants

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How does water exit the leaf?

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  • Stomata
  • Cuticle (small amount)
  • Lenticels (small amount)
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What is cohesion-tension theory?

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  • As water molecules are removed from the xylem, more are pulled up to replace them - transpiration pull - creates tension
  • Mass flow of water through xylem relies upon cohesion and adhesion of water
  • The theory is the drawing of a continuous column of water up the xylem vessel - transpiration stream
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What is cohesion?

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Molecules stick together by weak hydrogen bonds

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What is adhesion theory?

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  • Xylem vessels are narrow and have a hydrophilic lining
  • Water molecules adhere to the walls, causing water to move up the vessel by capillarity
  • Adhesion also counters the effect of gravity
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Root hair adaptations

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  • Thin walls - short diffusion pathway

* Large surface area

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How does water enter the root?

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  • Water in soil has a high water potential
  • Water in root hair vacuole has a low water potential
  • Water enters down a water potential gradient by osmosis
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Epidermis function

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Outer layer of cells - increased surface area for the uptake of ions and water

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Root cortex function

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Made of parenchyma cells - provide mechanical support to the root

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Endodermis function

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  • Layer of cells that surround the pericycle

* Endodermal cells have a Casparian strip around them which is made of suberin - waterproof

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Pericycle function

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Contains the vascular tissues

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Why is lignin important?

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Provides strength - prevent xylem vessels from collapsing due to the negative pressure inside the vessels during transpiration

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Function of sieve tubes in phloem

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  • Transport organic solutes
  • Formed by end-to-end fusion of sieve elements
  • Lack a nucleus or lignin
  • Cell walls at the ends of each cell are perforated (holes) to form sieve plates - cytoplasm to run into adjacent cells
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Function of companion cells in phloem

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  • Involved in the loading and unloading of sieve tubes with solutes
  • Linked to sieve tubes by plasmodesmata
  • Contain many organelles, especially mitochondria
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Why are the conducting cells of the xylem dead, while the conducting cells of the phloem are alive?

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Movement through xylem is passive, do cells do not need to be alive.
Movement through phloem is active, requires ATP from living cells

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What is the apoplast pathway?

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  • Water passes through cell walls of cortex cells and spaces between them (cellulose cell walls)
  • As water seeps along micro-spaces, cohesive forces mean more water is pulled along apoplast route
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What is the symplast pathway?

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Water passes through the cytoplasm of the cortex cells via the plasmodesmata

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What is the vacuolar pathway?

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Water travels from vacuole to vacuole in adjacent cells

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Role of the endodermis in uptake

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  • Suberin is deposited in cell walls and forms waterproof Casparian strips - block the apoplast pathway
  • Ions are actively transported via the symplast pathway - lowers water potential of the cells, causing water to move into symplast by osmosis - this helps generate a water potential gradient, drawing water in from the soil
  • The blocking of the apoplast pathway allows the endodermis to selectively uptake ions
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What affects mineral uptake?

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Oxygen supply
Temperature
Respiratory inhibitors

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What is root pressure theory?

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  • Endodermal cells actively transport ions into xylem vessels
  • Lowers water potential - water enters by osmosis, creating hydrostatic pressure
  • Pressure forces water up the stem, but not enough to push water to leaves in tall plants
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Stomatal opening

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  • Chloroplasts photosynthesise - energy for respiration - ATP
  • K+ ions actively transported into guard cells
  • Stimulates breakdown of starch (insoluble) to malate (soluble)
  • K+ lowers water potential of guard cells
  • Water enters guard cells from epidermal cells via osmosis
  • Guard cells become turgid & curve apart (inner walls are thicker and relatively inelastic) so the pore opens
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Stomatal closing

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  • No light - close to conserve water
  • No photosynthesis
  • K+ leak out
  • No breakdown of starch
  • Water potential raised
  • Water leaves guard cells via osmosis
  • Cells become flaccid, closing the pore
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How does humidity affect the rate of transpiration? (High)

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  • Lots of water molecules
  • Reduces water potential gradient between air spaces and at atmosphere
  • Rate decreases
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How does wind speed affect the rate of transpiration? (High)

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  • Wind disperses water vapour around the stomata
  • Increases water potential gradient
  • Rate increases
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How does temperature affect the rate of transpiration? (High)

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  • Increases kinetic energy of water molecules
  • Increases rate of evaporation from mesophyll cells
  • Air is able to hold more water molecules
  • Rate increases
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How does light affect the rate of transpiration? (High)

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  • Stomata open

* Rate increases

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What is a potometer?

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Used to measure the rate of transpiration
•Leafy shoot cut underwater
•Shoot attached by a rubber bung and sealed by vaseline
•Inside of apparatus is flooded with water
•Air bubble is introduced at capillary end
•Distance moved by air bubble per unit time is measured

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What is a xerophyte?

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Plants that have adapted to conditions of low water availability
E.g. marram grass

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Xerophytic adaptations to reduce transpiration

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  • Thick waxy cuticle reduces evaporation
  • Smaller leaves reduces S.A
  • Hinge cells cause leaves to roll up - retains humid air, reducing water potential gradient
  • Stomata sunken into pits - trap humid air
  • Leaf hairs trap humid air
  • Rounded shape of plant/leaf - reduces S.A
  • Shallow, extensive root system - absorb rainwater
  • Close stomata
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What are hydrophytes?

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Plants adapted to aquatic environments

E.g. water lilies

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Hydrophytic adaptations

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  • Stomata on upper epidermis - gas exchange
  • Thin cuticle
  • Large air spaces - buoyancy
  • Poorly developed xylem - water provides support
  • Roots can act as anchors
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How may sucrose be loaded at the source?

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  • Sucrose may travel by apoplast or symplast (or both)
  • Specialised donor transfer cells have foldings which increases the S.A of the cell surface membrane - cells have many mitochondria for active transport
  • ATP pumps sucrose into the sieve tube element against a concentration gradient
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How many sucrose be unloaded at the sinks?

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  • Low concentration of sucrose at the sinks

* Transfer cells pump sucrose into surrounding tissue via active transport

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How is a pressure gradient generated in the phloem?

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  • As water enters the source, hydrostatic pressure builds up, forcing solution into phloem
  • Mass flow of solution occurs along a hydrostatic gradient along the phloem, into the sink - forces water out of the sink, into the xylem
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What are mesophytes?

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Terrestrial plants that are adapted to neither a dry nor wet environment

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Mesophyte adaptations

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  • Deciduous trees - lose their leaves during autumn to reduce water loss
  • Bulbs - dormant in winter and underground, plant emerges in spring and summer
  • Herbaceous perennials - growth dies in winter, but roots survive
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Evidence for translocation

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  • Sucrose is transported in the phloem
  • Sucrose is transported bi-directionally through the stem
  • Rate of translocation is faster than diffusion
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Ringing experiments (translocation)

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  • Cylinders of bark can be removed from the stem, removing the phloem but leaving the xylem
  • After a time period, the composition of the phloem above and below is sampled
  • Sucrose and other organic solutes are present above the ring but absent below it
  • Provides evidence for translocation in phloem
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Use of aphids (translocation)

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  • Aphid stylet penetrates the individual sieve tub elements
  • The body is removed, leaving the stylet
  • Phloem sap exudes from the stylet and can be analysed
  • Shows that organic compounds are translocated
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Autoradiography (translocation)

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  • The leaf is supplied with radioactive CO2 and allowed to photosynthesise
  • Carbohydrates made will be radioactively labelled
  • Am autoradiograph is an image produced on photographic film - the isotope will fog the film, revealing its location and therefore the location of the phloem
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What do the aphid and autoradiography experiments demonstrate? (Translocation)

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  • Translocation occurs from source to sink
  • Translocation may be bi-directional
  • Translocation is rapid
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What is mass flow hypothesis? (Translocation)

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  • Suggests that translocation of solutes through the phloem occurs due to differences in hydrostatic pressure - passive movement
  • Munch’s experiment demonstrates this
  • Water enters A (low w.p) down a water potential gradient by osmosis - increases hydrostatic pressure in A and forced the sucrose solution along the vessel to B (high w.p)
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What two sources of evidence don’t support mass flow hypothesis? (Translocation)

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  • The presence of large numbers of mitochondria in the companion cells
  • Translocation has only been observed in living phloem tissue
  • Both if these imply translocation involves ATP - active
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What is the pressure flow hypothesis? (Translocation)

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  • Suggests that translocation involves a combination of active transport and mass flow, and takes place in three stages:
  • Loading of sucrose at the source
  • Translocation of sap from source to sink
  • Unloading of sucrose at the sinks
  • Account for presence of mitochondria and speed of translocation
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What is the cytoplasm streaming hypothesis? (Translocation)

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  • Within individual sieve tube elements, the cytoplasm circulates around the cell
  • Solutes may then be actively transported across the sieve plate, either upwards or downwards in the sieve tube
  • This would account for the movement of solutes in opposite directions in the same sieve tube

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