Could u grow a plant without sunlight and water if you melted some glucose and fed it to the plant?

Question

Could u grow a plant without sunlight and water if you melted some glucose and fed it to the plant?

Answer 1

Plants actually dont like heat... with melted glucose you would burn the plant.

A common mistake is thinking plants like the sun because it is hot... this is wrong, the truth plants like the sun because of light!

Plants also need to conduct photosynthesis in order to maintain leaves and allow leaves to release water, this is the primary method for sucking up water through the roots. Without leaves the tree would stop growing because it is getting not enough nutrients and water.

Another problem is that plants dont usually digest glucose... they digest starch (a more complex form of sugar)... this is because feeding the pland glucose would most likely attract too many insects, mould and fungi that would destroy the plant.

This is why Plants only produce glucose for specialised reasons such as fruit and flowers (reproduction reasons).

Answer 2

Well the way the plant gets its energy is by absorbing the light rays and turning into food with the process of photosynthesis.. I think you could. As long as it [plant] was absorbing the glucose. Maybe a water mix...

Not 100% sure

Answer 3

Probably not.  Glucose is only one product of the light-independent reactions of photosynthesis.  When PGA is reduced to 3PG, this molecule can serve as a precursor for a number of differentn and important molecules such as glucose, cellulose, RuBP, and a number of other things.  For this reason, 3PG is consodered a hub molecule, one of who's fates is to produce glucose.

Answer 4

No. even if u gave the plant all the water and nutrients it needs to survive, without sunlight there would be no way for the plant to absorb them. Plants "suck" water out of the ground because water is constantly being evaporated from the leaves. as it exits the leaves, it pulls water and nutrients up the thallus. so without sunlight to drive this process (transpiration), the plant would die.