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Effect of Path or Sink Anoxia on Sugar Translocation in Roots of Maize Seedlings

Station de Physiologie Végétale, Institut National de Recherches Agronomiques, Centre de Recherches de Bordeaux, B.P. 131, 33140 Pont de la Maye, France

After feeding the scutellum of young maize seedlings with a labeled analog of glucose, 2-deoxy-D-glucose, the progress of radioactivity along the root was followed when either 70% of the path or the whole root were in strict anoxic conditions, and was compared with the translocation pattern of aerobic seedlings. Special care was taken to suppress the internal O₂ transport and to control its occurrence.

In air, the radioactive compounds accumulated from 30 minutes in the root tip mainly as an analog of sucrose. When the whole root was anoxic, the progress of the radioactivity was very slow and never reached the tip which did not survive more than 8 hours. When 70% of the path was in strict anoxia and the sink (root tip) in air, the translocation was not impaired and the radioactivity accumulated in the tips as fast as in aerobic controls. The addition of 3 millimolar NaF, which inhibits the fermentative energy production, did not modify these results. It is concluded that long distance transport in maize sieve tubes has no special energy requirements and is controlled by source-sink relationships. The inhibition of sugar supply in anoxic root tips is attributed to an effect on unloading processes rather than on sink metabolism.

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