XVI International Botanical Congess

Serveral applications of the non-invasive Nuclear Magnetic Resonance imaging technique demonstrate how this versatile tool can be used to obtain information of physiologically relevant processes. Two different techniques, one for the mapping of 13C labelled metabolites and one for the measurement of water movement through plants are discussed in detail. The first technique allows one to monitor chemical selectively and spatially resolved the transport and the metabolic conversion of metabolites in intact plants. The second technique can be used to measure water flow in xylem and phloem simultaneously. Used in combination these two techniques offer the possibility to investigate assimilate transport in intact plants in an unperturbed situation.