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A study of several factors affecting the distribution of phosphorus-32 from the leaves ofPisum sativum

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1. Distribution patterns for the movement of solutes in the phloem from leaves of pea plants were found to be relatively specific. Phosphorus-32 applied to the leaf at the first bloom node moved predominantly (to the extent of 50 to 90 per cent) to the pod at that node. Distribution of the translocate from this leaf to pods at higher nodes was negligible.

2. Translocation in the phloem of phosphorus-32 from lower leaf nodes (i.e. 5th or 7th) was predominately downward with little or no accumulation in the pods.

3. The stage of development of the flower markedly affected the distribution pattern of phosphorus-32 supplied to the leaf at the same node. Essentially no activity moved into either the flower or the vegetative portions of the plant before anthesis and fertilization had occurred in that flower, as compared to the same plant parts in plants 4 to 6 days past anthesis. The young developing embryos of the pod appear to “control” the movement of phosphorus-32 from the adjacent leaf.

4. When the metabolic activity of the pod on plants bearing one pod only was lowered by cooling (to 7°C), the movement of phosphorus-32 to this pod as well as to all other parts of the plant was markedly diminished. This inhibitory effect of the low pod temperature on translocation to the uncooled parts of the plant was negated by the presence of a second pod (uncooled) on the plant. Lowering the temperature of the first pod resulted in a substantial increase in the proportion of the P32-labelled translocate moving to the second pod.

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  1. A. J. Linck

    Present address: Department of Plant Pathology and Botany, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul 1, Minnesota

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Paper No. 556 from Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus 10, Ohio.

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Linck, A.J., Swanson, C.A. A study of several factors affecting the distribution of phosphorus-32 from the leaves ofPisum sativum . Plant Soil 12, 57–68 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01377761

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