Osmotically driven pipe flows and their relation to sugar transport in plants
From MaRDI portal
Publication:5306111
Abstract: In plants, osmotically driven flows are believed to be responsible for translocation of sugar in the pipe-like phloem cell network, spanning the entire length of the plant. In this paper, we present an experimental and theoretical study of transient osmotically driven flows through pipes with semipermeable walls. We extend the experimental work of Eschrich, Evert and Young cite[]{Eschrich:1972} by providing a more accurate version of their experiment allowing for better comparison with theory. In the experiments we measure the dynamics and structure of a "sugar front", i.e. the transport and decay of a sudden loading of sugar in a pipe which is closed in both ends. We include measurements of pressure inside the membrane tube allowing us to compare the experiments directly with theory and, in particular, to confirm quantitatively the exponential decay of the front in a closed tube.In a novel setup we are able to measure the entire concentration profile as the sugar front moves. In contrast to previous studies we find very good agreement between experiment and theory. In the limit of low axial resistance (valid in our experiments as well as in many cases in plants) we show that the equations can be solved exactly by the method of characteristics yielding, in general, an implicit solution. Further we show that under more general conditions the equations of motion can be rewritten as a single integro-differential equation, which can be readily solved numerically. The applicability of our results to plants is discussed and it is shown that it is probable that the pressure-flow hypothesis can account for short distance transport of sugar in plants.
Recommendations
- Analytic solutions and universal properties of sugar loading models in Münch phloem flow
- Application of a single-solute non-steady-state phloem model to the study of long-distance assimilate transport
- Mathematical modelling of the phloem: the importance of diffusion on sugar transport at osmotic equilibrium
- Taylor dispersion in osmotically driven laminar flows in phloem
- Scaling phloem transport: elasticity and pressure-concentration waves
Cites work
Cited in
(15)- Analytic solutions and universal properties of sugar loading models in Münch phloem flow
- Thermodynamic analysis of the interaction of the xylem water and phloem sugar solution and its significance for the cohesion theory
- Theoretical examination of the standing osmotic gradient response to a step change of the solute influx into the symplast
- Long-distance hormone transport via the phloem
- Self-consistent unstirred layers in osmotically driven flows
- Osmosis for non-electrolyte solvents in permeable periodic porous media
- Mathematical modelling of the phloem: the importance of diffusion on sugar transport at osmotic equilibrium
- Solute dispersion in channels with periodic square boundary roughness
- Taylor dispersion in osmotically driven laminar flows in phloem
- Intermittent air invasion in pervaporating compliant microchannels
- Spatial sucrose sink profiles shape phloem transport efficiency and xylem-phloem water exchange
- Sucrose transport to the root and shoot in the seedling phloem
- Transient dispersion in oscillatory flows: auxiliary-time extension method for concentration moments
- Scaling phloem transport: elasticity and pressure-concentration waves
- Active ion transport as the basis for water movement in plants
This page was built for publication: Osmotically driven pipe flows and their relation to sugar transport in plants
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5306111)
