Carbohydrate partitioning is the process of carbon assimilation and distribution from source
tissues, such as leaves, to sink tissues, such as stems, roots and seeds. Sucrose, the …

Sucrose is produced in, and translocated from, photosynthetically active leaves (sources) to
support non-photosynthetic tissues (sinks), such as developing seeds, fruits, and tubers …

In plants, communication and molecular exchanges between different cells and tissues are
dependent on the apoplastic and symplastic pathways. Symplastic molecular exchanges …

Building a complex structure such as the cell wall, with many individual parts that need to be
assembled correctly from distinct sources within the cell, is a well-orchestrated process …

Plasmodesmata are membrane-lined channels that are located in the plant cell wall and that
physically interconnect the cytoplasm and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of adjacent cells …

Melatonin regulates growth in many plants; however, the mechanism remains unclear. In
this study, exogenous melatonin feeding resulted in both promotional (≤ 10 μm) and …

C4 plants evolved independently more than 60 times from C3 ancestors. C4 photosynthesis
is a complex trait and its evolution from the ancestral C3 photosynthetic pathway involved …

Sugars are necessary for plant growth and fruit development. Cucumber (Cucumis sativus
L.) transports sugars, mainly raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs), in the vascular …

It has long been recognized that stomatal movement modulates CO2 availability and as a
consequence the photosynthetic rate of plants, and that this process is feedback-regulated …

During multicellularization, plants evolved unique cell-cell connections, the plasmodesmata
(PD). PD of angiosperms are complex cellular domains, embedded in the cell wall and …