HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The sucrose is transported around the plant in phloem vessels. It needs to be able to reach all cells in the plant so that the sucrose can be converted back into glucose for respiration. The movement of sucrose and other substances like amino acids around a plant is called translocation .

Detailed explanation-2: -Organic molecules such as sucrose and amino acids move from a source to a sink via phloem tubes in plants. The phloem is composed of living tissue called sieve tube members (lack a nucleus) that are joined end to end to form a tube that conducts food materials throughout the plant.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sucrose synthesized in green leaves is transported via the phloem, the long distance distribution network for assimilates in order to supply nonphotosynthetic organs with energy and carbon skeletons.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sucrose, the assimilate, is transported by diffusion from the source in the leaf palisade mesophyll cells across their cell walls and spaces between the cells. It eventually reaches the tissues surrounding the phloem in the leaf. You can see this process of diffusion occurring in Figure 4.