Source-to-sink transport of sugar is one of the major determinants of plant growth and relies
on the efficient and controlled distribution of sucrose (and some other sugars such as …

Increasing interest is devoted to carbohydrates for their roles in plant immunity. Some of
them are elicitors of plant defenses whereas other ones act as signaling molecules in a …

Considering global climate change, the incidence of combined drought and heat stress is
likely to increase in the future and will considerably influence plant-pathogen interactions …

Plants have the ability to recognize and respond to a multitude of microorganisms.
Recognition of pathogens results in a massive reprogramming of the plant cell to activate …

In plants, the chloroplast is the organelle that conducts photosynthesis. It has been known
that chloroplast is involved in virus infection of plants for approximate 70 years. Recently, the …

The concept that photosynthetic flux is influenced by the accumulation of photo‐assimilate
persisted for 100 years before receiving any strong experimental support. Precise analysis …

Sucrose is the main form of assimilated carbon which is produced during photosynthesis
and then transported from source to sink tissues via the phloem. This disaccharide is known …

Phytopathogen infection leads to changes in secondary metabolism based on the induction
of defence programmes as well as to changes in primary metabolism which affect growth …

Plant viruses are biotrophic pathogens that need living tissue for their multiplication and
thus, in the infection–defence equilibrium, they do not normally cause plant death. In some …

Extracellular invertase is the key enzyme of an apoplasmic phloem unloading pathway and
catalyses the hydrolytic cleavage of the transport sugar sucrose released into the apoplast …