There Are Mountains of Sugar Hidden in The Ocean, And We've Only Just Found Out

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There Are Mountains of Sugar Hidden in The Ocean, And We've Only Just Found Out
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Hidden below the waves, the ocean contains vast reserves of sugar that we never were aware of, according to new research.

. It means seabed sugar concentrations are some 80 times higher than they would be normally.

"Un­der average light conditions, these plants use most of the sug­ars they pro­duce for their own meta­bol­ism and growth. But un­der high light con­di­tions, for ex­ample at mid­day or dur­ing the sum­mer, the plants pro­duce more sugar than they can use or store. Then they re­lease the excess sucrose into their rhizosphere. Think of it as an over­flow valve.

The researchers tested out their hypothesis in an actual underwater seagrass field to confirm that this is indeed what was happening, via a"In our ex­per­i­ments we ad­ded phen­olics isol­ated from seagrass to the mi­croor­gan­isms in the seagrass rhizo­sphere,""And in­deed, much less sucrose was con­sumed com­pared to when no phenolics were present.

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