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Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volume 73, 2022

Phloem Loading and Unloading of Sucrose: What a Long, Strange Trip from Source to Sink

Abstract

Sucrose is transported from sources (mature leaves) to sinks (importing tissues such as roots, stems, fruits, and seeds) through the phloem tissues in veins. In many herbaceous crop species, sucrose must first be effluxed to the cell wall by a sugar transporter of the SWEET family prior to being taken up into phloem companion cells or sieve elements by a different sugar transporter, called SUT or SUC. The import of sucrose into these cells is termed apoplasmic phloem loading. In sinks, sucrose can similarly exit the phloem apoplasmically or, alternatively, symplasmically through plasmodesmata into connecting parenchyma storage cells. Recent advances describing the regulation and manipulation of sugar transporter expression and activities provide stimulating new insights into sucrose phloem loading in sources and unloading processes in sink tissues. Additionally, new breakthroughs have revealed distinct subpopulations of cells in leaves with different functions pertaining to phloem loading. These and other discoveries in sucrose transport are discussed.

Keyword(s): apoplasmic, phloem, plasmodesmata, sucrose, sugar transporters, symplasmic
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Phloem Loading and Unloading of Sucrose: What a Long, Strange Trip from Source to Sink
Annual Review of Plant Biology 73, 553 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-070721-083240
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