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physics.bio-ph2017★ 55 cited
Passive phloem loading and long-distance transport in a synthetic tree-on-a-chip
Jean Comtet, Kaare H. Jensen, Robert Turgeon +2
Vascular plants rely on differences of osmotic pressure to export sugars from regions of synthesis (mature leaves) to sugar sinks (roots, fruits). In this process, known as Münch p…
physics.bio-ph2016★ 68 cited
Phloem loading through plasmodesmata: a biophysical analysis
Jean Comtet, Robert Turgeon, Abraham D. Stroock
In many species, sucrose en route out of the leaf migrates from photosynthetically active mesophyll cells into the phloem down its concentration gradient via plasmodesmata, i.e., s…