It is argued that it is not possible to predict the flux of assimilate into a sink by making a measurement on that sink alone. Rather carbon flux is a whole-plant property and can only be predicted from measurements made simultaneously in source leaves and sinks, and the transport system itself.
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J. F. FARRAR (1996) studied this question.
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