Abstract
The roots of a mature, field‐grown maize plant are dimorphic: the primary root and those from the oldest nodes are bare with a heavily lignified cortex arid sloughed epidermis; those from younger nodes, except for a bare elongation zone, have an intact epidermis surrounded by a persistent soil sheath. Sheathed roots consistently have more layers of cortical cells, but the ratio of volumes of cortex to stele (ca 4) and the cross‐sectional area of phloem (ca3× 10−2 mm2) are similar in each type. Assimilated carbon (from 14C applied to a small area of one leaf) was translocated to all roots and actively metabolized in cortex and stele of both types. After 1 to 2 days the proportion of 14C exuded from a given length of mature root into its soil sheath, or into the adjacent unattached soil in the case of bare roots, was the same (5%) in both root types when compared with the ethanol‐soluble 14C in the tissues of this length. Up to 75% of the ethanol‐soluble label in the roots was in a cationic fraction (amino acids and unidentified compounds), ca 1% was in an anionic fraction and the remainder was in a neutral fraction (sugars). Approximately equal amounts of soluble 14C were found in the stele, cortex and laterals.
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Created | 19 years, 4 months ago (April 30, 2006, 7:33 p.m.) |
Deposited | 1 year, 10 months ago (Oct. 21, 2023, 5:33 p.m.) |
Indexed | 4 days, 13 hours ago (Aug. 31, 2025, 6:33 a.m.) |
Issued | 39 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 1985) |
Published | 39 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 1985) |
Published Online | 19 years, 4 months ago (April 28, 2006) |
Published Print | 39 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 1985) |
@article{McCully_1985, title={Localisation of translocated 14C in roots and root exudates of field‐grown maize}, volume={65}, ISSN={1399-3054}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3054.1985.tb08661.x}, DOI={10.1111/j.1399-3054.1985.tb08661.x}, number={4}, journal={Physiologia Plantarum}, publisher={Wiley}, author={McCully, M. E. and Canny, M. J.}, year={1985}, month=dec, pages={380–392} }