Sentences with phrase «phloem transport»
Probably the way a bark beetle or EAB kills the tree is by girdling the trunk such that the all phloem transport is stopped.
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The xylem transports water and minerals from the roots to the leaves while the phloem moves food substances from leaves to the rest of the plant.
They produced a suite of remarkable videos showing growing roots and fluorescently tagged solutes and large molecules moving through the phloem, the tissue that transports plant sugars, and getting offloaded to neighboring cells.
They discovered that the phloem unloads through convection, a combination of diffusion, the movement of sugar solute from areas of high concentration to low, and bulk flow, in which both a solute and solution are transported.
Vascular plants have lignified tissue and specialized structures termed xylem and phloem, which transport water, minerals, and nutrients upward from the roots and return sugars and other photosynthetic products.
These species kill by overwhelming, with coordinated aggression and sheer numbers, a tree's defenses, followed by a complete destruction of the tree's ability to transport the products of photosynthesis (e.g. sucrose, amino acids, hormones, etc.) through its transport tissue, the phloem or inner bark.
The stringy strands found on a freshly peeled banana are known as phloem (pronounced flom) and serve as veins, in a manner of speaking, to transport nutrients as the banana is growing.