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    The mass flow hypothesis describes the transport of sugars in plants. Sugars are produced in mesophyll cells and loaded into sieve tube elements under high pressure. The pressure gradient causes a mass flow of sugars through the sieve tube elements to sink cells like starch storage cells under lower pressure. Water loss through transpiration helps drive this mass flow of sugars from source to sink cells along the pressure gradient in the plant's vascular system.

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    The mass flow hypothesis describes the transport of sugars in plants. Sugars are produced in mesophyll cells and loaded into sieve tube elements under high pressure. The pressure gradient causes a mass flow of sugars through the sieve tube elements to sink cells like starch storage cells under lower pressure. Water loss through transpiration helps drive this mass flow of sugars from source to sink cells along the pressure gradient in the plant's vascular system.

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    The mass flow hypothesis describes the transport of sugars in plants. Sugars are produced in mesophyll cells and loaded into sieve tube elements under high pressure. The pressure gradient causes a mass flow of sugars through the sieve tube elements to sink cells like starch storage cells under lower pressure. Water loss through transpiration helps drive this mass flow of sugars from source to sink cells along the pressure gradient in the plant's vascular system.

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    The mass flow hypothesis describes the transport of sugars in plants. Sugars are produced in mesophyll cells and loaded into sieve tube elements under high pressure. The pressure gradient causes a mass flow of sugars through the sieve tube elements to sink cells like starch storage cells under lower pressure. Water loss through transpiration helps drive this mass flow of sugars from source to sink cells along the pressure gradient in the plant's vascular system.

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    Mass flow hypothesis

    Companion
    cell with
    nucleus and
    mitokondria

    Sieve tube
    element

    Source cell : mesophyll cell


    of leaf where sugar is
    formed

    High hydrostatic
    pressure here , due to
    dissolved sugar

    Sieve plate
    Water loss by
    evaporation

    Sugar
    loaded
    into sieve
    tube

    Cytoplasm
    with protein
    strands
    Transpiration
    stream

    Mass flow
    along sieve
    element
    from high
    to low
    hydrostatic
    pressure
    zone

    xylem

    Water uptake
    in root hair

    Low hydrostatic pressure here


    because sugar is converted to
    insoluble starch

    Sink cell
    e.g starch storage
    cell

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