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Within the plants sugars are transported from one organ to the other mostly in form of :

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Sugars, which are formed by the plant during photosynthesis, are transported mostly as sucrose.
Like water, sugar (usually in the form of sucrose, though glucose is the original photosynthetic product) is carried throughout the parts of the plant by the vascular system. Phloem, the vascular tissue responsible for transporting organic nutrients around the plant body, carries dissolved sugars from the leaves (their site of production) or storage sites to other parts of the plant that require nutrients.

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