HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
CROP PHYSIOLOGY
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Question
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What is the best words to describe sugar source and sugar sink
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Both are plants organ and act as storage
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Sugar sink can be either roots, fruit or mature leaves and sugar source is shoots
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Sugar source is where sugar enters the phloem and sugar sink is where sugar exits the phloem
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Companion tube carry food from a sugar source to a sugar sink
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -At sinks, sugars are transported out of the phloem into surrounding cells. This withdrawal of sugars causes water to leave the sieve tube, again by osmosis, reducing turgor pressure at the sink end. It is the difference in turgor pressure that drives the movement of phloem sap from source to sink.
Detailed explanation-2: -A phloem is a conducting tissue in plants that transports food to all the parts of a plant. The movement of food from the source to the sink is known as phloem translocation. Leaves photosynthesise and are, therefore, sources of plants.
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