Movement of phloem sap from a source to a sink
A) occurs through the apoplast of sieve-tube elements.
B) may translocate sugars from the breakdown of stored starch in a root up to developing shoots.
C) depends on tension, or negative pressure potential.
D) depends on pumping water into sieve tubes at the source.
E) results mainly from diffusion.
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