Clarifying assimilate transport & storage in monocot stems

This thesis is quite diverse in nature. The first section is about three dimensional imaging, the second about high throughput phenotyping and the third genetic sequencing. It is all driven towards trying to understand how sugars are stored in stems. Each section contained within has an explanation of how and why this diversity was conducted. It has coalesced into novel techniques, inventions and genetic targets that when combined will undoubtedly help drive understanding of the post phloem pathway.