Publisher's Synopsis
This book is an attempt to give a picture of the present state of research on phloem transport and assimilate partitioning. It is devoted to expert accounts of various aspects of the control of allocation on ultrastructure and biology of specialized cells, on plasmodesmata, phloemxylem exchanges, membrane transport, on sink metabolism, water relations, xenobiotic transport and on techniques and modelling. The topics are discussed and an integration attempted from the structural, physiological, biochemical and molecular points of view. The authors also attempt to look into the future of their specialist subject areas.;This book arose out of a meeting, the Fourth International Conference on Phloem Transport and Assimilate Compartmentation, held at the Cognac Conference Centre "La Salamandre", Charente, France from 1924 August 1990.
