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What does a fine jet of steam do to plants ? Translocation In Plants?
Hi people.
A radioactive isotope was used to trace the path of the translocation of food in a potted bean plant.
A single leaf of a bean plant was enclosed in a small glass chamber filled with radioactive CO2.
Under conditions where sunlight, water and CO2 were ample for photosynthesis to occur, a fine jet of steam was applied to various parts of the plant.
In all of the experiments, it was found that parts of the plants where the fine jet of steam was applied to had Zero arbitrary units of Radioactivity in them.
why ??
The steam is being used to vaporize parts of the plant. The vapor is then being analyzed radioactive carbon.
As the blurb says, no radioactive carbon is being found.
Conclusion: products of photosynthesis don't get moved to other photosynthetic surfaces of the plant. (Probably because those surfaces can make their own products of photosynthesis. Duh.)
Direct your steam next toward the nonphotosynthetic stem, and the roots.
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