title: Patterns of photoassimilate translocation to reproductive shoots from adjacent shoots in Camellia sasanqua by manipulation of sink-source balance between the shoots.
abstract: To know to what extent reproductive shoots are autonomous in Camellia sasanqua, we manipulated the sink-source balance between the reproductive shoots and their adjacent shoots by selecting vegetative or reproductive adjacent shoots, or defoliating the reproductive shoots, and photosynthetically labeled adjacent shoots with (13)C. The atom% of (13)C did not increase in the unlabeled shoots that had leaves, whereas that in the defoliated, unlabeled shoot was significantly increased. These results indicated that the pattern of translocation of photoassimilates to adjacent reproductive shoots occurs depending on the sink-source balance between shoots.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Oitate
authors.forename: Ko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Noguchi
authors.forename: Kosei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sone
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Terashima
authors.forename: Alata Antönio
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: D001692:Biological Transport; D018533:Biomass; D028244:Camellia / Q000378:metabolism*; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000378:metabolism; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D007553:Isotope Labeling; D010788:Photosynthesis / Q000502:physiology*; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000378:metabolism; D018520:Plant Shoots / Q000378:metabolism*; D018547:Plant Stems / Q000378:metabolism; D012098:Reproduction
chemical_list: D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D002245:Carbon Dioxide