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Plant Physiology 49:1007-1011 (1972)
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Lateral Movement of Water and Sugar Across Xylem in Sugarcane Stalks

T. A. Bull, K. R. Gayler1 and K. T. Glasziou

a David North Plant Research Centre, P.O. Box 68, Toowong 4066, Queensland, Australia

Laterally connected vascular bundles in the nodes of sugarcane (Saccharum species cv. Pindar) stalks allow a rapid redistribution of water across the stalk should the vascular continuity be partly disrupted. Tritiated water supplied to the roots exchanged rapidly between the xylem and storage tissue so that net movement up the stalk was slow. The half-time for exchange in a labeled stalk was about 4 hours so that the entire water content of a sugarcane stalk can turn over at least once in a single day. No rapid flux of sugar between xylem and phloem or xylem and storage tissue was detected. Functional xylem contained only low sugar concentrations: less than 0.3% w/v in the stalk and less than 0.02% w/v in the leaf. Previous reports of high sugar levels (9% w/v) in sugarcane stalk xylem reflect some degree of xylem blockage followed by a slow equilibration with free space sugars in the storage tissue.

1 Present address: Department of Biochemistry, Melbourne University, Melbourne, 3000, Victoria, Australia.




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