WHORL-SPECIFIC. “The metabolite profiles of the needles mainly changed with developmental stage, and thus the whorl in which they were located, from the youngest to the oldest. However, the accumulation pattern of sucrose and some other metabolites seems also to be affected by the environmental conditions. Therefore, developmental time appears to be a long-term variable that strongly influences metabolite levels, suggesting that metabolic processes are similar in all whorls.”
http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/11/3113.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022