Researchers from the Max Planck Institute were disturbed by the huge levels of sucrose identified in a recent study. Seagrass, a marine flowering plant present in many coastal places across the world, could be to blame for this phenomenon. These species are especially essential in marine ecology since they are one of the world’s most efficient CO2 sinks.

Seagrass stores roughly twice as much carbon as terrestrial forests, and it does it 35 times faster, according to the study.

As a result, seagrass is a valuable resource for lowering global greenhouse gas emissions.

The researchers in this new study are concerned about the massive sugar stockpile.

“Normally, sugar is part of the natural process of photosynthesis,” said Nicole Dubilier, the institute’s director.

“The majority of the sugars produced by these plants are used for their own growth.

“However, under high light conditions, such as at noon or in the summer, plants produce more sugar than they can consume.”

The extra sugar is then stored before being released into the rhizosphere, which is the area of the soil where the roots are located.

During the winter, the rhizosphere is brimming with high sugаr concentrations.

“It is estimаted thаt there аre between 0.6 аnd 1.3 million tonnes of sugаr in the rhizosphere of seаgrаsses worldwide,” sаid Mаnuel Liebeke, heаd of the Institute’s Metаbolic Interаctions Reseаrch Group.

This sum is roughly equal to 32 billion soda cans.

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