“FLOWER OPENING may be due to a combination of sugar uptake and degradation of various polysaccharides. In gladiolus florets, where starch was a source of soluble carbohydrate, the increase in sugar content was 7–8 times higher than the decrease in starch content, which is indicative of sugar uptake.”
http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/389/1801.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022