What does the movement of the Phloem-mobile symplastic tracer, 5,6-carboxyfluorescein in shoots of Pisum Sativum L. Indicate - the existence of a symplastic transport system? - a bid to answer some puzzling questions

Ade-Ademilua, Omobolanle Elizabeth; Botha, Christiaan E J

Title: What does the movement of the Phloem-mobile symplastic tracer, 5,6-carboxyfluorescein in shoots of Pisum Sativum L. Indicate - the existence of a symplastic transport system? - a bid to answer some puzzling questions
Creator: Ade-Ademilua, Omobolanle Elizabeth
Creator: Botha, Christiaan E J
Date Issued: 2006
Date: 2006
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6492
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004475
Identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.3923/ajpp.2006.127.131
Description: Like other members of the Fabaceae, the minor veins of Pisum are categorized as a closed system termed type 2 minor vein configuration due to the presence of few or no plasmodesmal connections between the sieve element-transfer cell complex (SE-TCC) and the adjacent cells (Gamalei, 1989; van Bel and Gamalei, 1991) Pisum is classified further into the category of type 2 b minor vein configuration due to the presence of transfer cells with the characteristic wall ingrowths in the minor vein phloem (Gamalei, 1989). According to van Bel et al. (1992), there is a correlation between minor vein configuration and phloem loading. However, by reason of low plasmodesmal frequency, the pathway of the flow of assimilates in plants with type 2 minor vein configuration is considered to be apoplasmic (Gamalei, 1989; van Bel and Gamalei, 1991). Therefore, present reports on the movement of phloem-mobile 5,6-carboxyfluorescein, a known symplamically transported compound between pea leaflets raises some doubts on the accession that transport within the phloem in pea is strictly apoplasmic. In this study we look at different points of arguments and try to offer our explanation and conclusions on the transport pathways that are likely to exist in Pisum.
Format: 5 pages
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Language: English
Relation: Ade-Ademilua, O.E. and Botha, C.E.J. (2006) What Does the Movement of the Phloem-mobile Symplastic Tracer, 5,6-carboxyfluorescein in shoots of Pisum Sativum L. Indicate - the Existence of a Symplastic Transport System? - A bid to Answer Some Puzzling Questions. American Journal of Plant Physiology, 1 (2). pp. 127-131. Available: http://198.170.104.138/ajpp/2006/127-131.pdf

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