Morgan Furze led a new publication in Plant Cell & Environment focusing on the transport and metabolism of recent photosynthetically fixed C in trees. We pulse labeled trees with 13C carbon dioxide and followed that isotopic tracer in the sugar pools of leaves, phloem, and roots. Trees dynamically allocated 13C‐labelled sugars throughout the aboveground‐belowground continuum. Interestingly, these trees utilized raffinose as a transport molecule, suggesting that they use a polymer-trapping mechanism of phloem loading.
You can read Morgan's study here.
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