Microautoradiography as a Tool for the Recognition of Phloem Transport

During the past twenty years, reports in literature have indicated the increasing use of autoradiographic techniques in problems dealing with translocation of nutrients in the phloem. Now the patterns of movement of photosynthates in plants with collateral or bicollateral bundles are fairly well known. But this technique can still bring us a far better knowledge of other aspects of phloem physiology, such as mechanism of phloem loading for instance.