Sentence examples for source leaves from inspiring English sources

This contrasts with most other plants where sucrose is the only sugar translocated from source leaves to sink organs.

While natural gas has many advantages, an over-reliance on any one fuel source leaves consumers vulnerable to price spikes and supply disruptions.

Overdependence on any one source of energy, especially a foreign source, leaves us vulnerable to price shocks, supply interruptions and in the worst case, blackmail.

Nutrients are translocated to developing seeds at a rate that is regulated by transport processes in source leaves, in the phloem vascular pathway, and at seed sinks.

Drought increased hexose concentration 2.5-fold for source leaves and 1.3-fold for sink leaves.

For example the concentration of sucrose in source leaves is named SOURSUC.

Starch concentration decreased in source leaves, by contrast with soluble sugars and with that observed in sink leaves.

These results suggest that the physiological importance of LSE3 is limited in the phloem loading pathway of photoassimilates in source leaves.

However, antisense suppression of OsSUT1 did not induce clear symptoms of blocked phloem loading in source leaves (Ishimaru et al. [2001]; Scofield et al. [2002]).

Several lines of evidence have also shown that K deficiency causes a decrease in sucrose export from source leaves (Mengel and Viro, 1974; Cakmak, 2005).

Rebolledo et al. (2012) presented the hypothesis that low-vigour plants may be sink limited, resulting in limited C export from source leaves.