Estimation of Osmotic Gradients in Soybean Sieve Tubes by Quantitative Autoradiography: Qualified Support for the MÜnch Hypothesis 1
AUTOR(ES)
Housley, Thomas L.
RESUMO
An attempt was made to evaluate Münch's hypothesis of osmotically generated pressure flow in soybean (Glycine max L.) sieve tubes from velocity measurements and calculations of pressure potentials and sieve tube resistances. Pressure potential was estimated from values for water potentials and osmotic potential. Leaf water potential measurements were made by isopiestic thermocouple psychrometry, while the water potential of the nutrient solution was made with a vapor pressure osmometer. Osmotic potential was measured by first bringing the sucrose pools in the entire plant to the same specific radioactivity by steady-state-labeling of the shoot with constant specific radioactivity 14CO2 for 5 to 8 hours. Sucrose concentrations in sieve tubes were calculated from the disintegration rate per unit volume in sieve elements as measured by absolute quantitative microautoradiography of freeze-substituted, Eponembedded source (leaf) and sink (root) tissues.
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