Translocation 1 - Notes in Biology OCR A, A- Level. PDF

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Translocation What is movement?

• Translocation is the improvement of enhancements around a plant. The term joins the advancement of minerals, which can be separated in water and moved in the xylem, yet when in doubt suggests the vehicle of sugars, amino acids, and other common molecules in the phloem.

• Translocation can happen either path in the phloem – it is bidirectional. It is a working cycle, requiring energy, not at all like water transport in the xylem.

Sources and Sinks

Sources

• These offer adapts to the plant from reactions or limit with respect to move

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Green leaves and stems

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Storage organs. E.g tubers and root taps

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Food stores in seeds

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Sucrose makes up 20-30% of phloem sap

Sinks

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These use adapts from the plant in various cycles

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Growing roots

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Active cycles in the roots and stem

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Meristem cells activity parceling

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Developing stores, e.g seeds, common items or limit organs

Phloem Loading

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Translocation is essential communication in plants

• A colossal tree can move to 250kg of sucrose around it trunk a year

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Assimilates are moved into the phloem by powerful cycles

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There are two course retains are moved into the phloem:

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Symplat Route

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Apoplast Route...