“…In the xylem sap, Fe is mainly transported in form of Fe 111 , associated mostly with citrate (Tiffin, 1972). In pea or bean plants, Fe transport from roots to the shoot is distinctly influenced by transpiration (Branton and Jacobsen, 1962;Schultz and Marschner, 1969). Iron is also fairly mobile in the phloem as shown by substantial concentrations of Fe in the phloem sap (Hocking, 1980) and by retranslocation of foliar-applied Fe (Martens and Westermann, 1991).…”