AUTO-DIGESTION. “Young, actively growing vegetative sinks, and storage organs accumulating reserve proteins, have a rapacious appetite for N. When the demand cannot be met by import from the rhizosphere alone, N is withdrawn from older tissues. In extreme cases – monocarpic reproduction, for example – N remobilization from older tissues can occur on such a scale that the plant ‘self-destructs’.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022