what is translocation in plants
Photo by: Anette Linnea Rasmus. Translocation is the movement of materials from leaves to other tissues throughout the plant. Plants produce carbohydrates (sugars) in their leaves by photosynthesis, but nonphotosynthetic parts of the plant also require carbohydrates and other organic and nonorganic materials.he rate of translocation in angiosperms (flowering plants) is approximately 1 meter per hour. In conifers it is generally much slower, but even so this is far too fast to be accounted for by diffusion. Instead, the sap flows, like a river of dilute syrup water.
In reviewing the literature on bacterial translocation, it is clear that one of the major deficiencies in this field of study is lack of agreement of just what findings constitute evidence of bacterial translocation. Some criteria found in the literature include: