Plant roots are adapted as storage organ( such as potatoes and carrots)Typically photosynthesize during the summer and remain dormant underground during winter. Explain how sugar transport in such a plant would be different during summer, when the plant is photosynthesizing and in the spring when new growth is coming up

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Plant roots are adapted as storage organ( such as potatoes and carrots)Typically photosynthesize during the summer and remain dormant underground during winter. Explain how sugar transport in such a plant would be different during summer, when the plant is photosynthesizing and in the spring when new growth is coming up
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