HYBRID STRATEGY. “Some petals contain both starch and fructan. In chrysanthemum petals, for example, both polysaccharides were degraded during petal expansion. Finally, some flowers reportedly contain neither fructan nor starch (or only very low starch concentrations) just prior to opening.”
http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/389/1801.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022