We can look at trees as an example of this secondary growth, through the annual rings that can often be identified. Each season new cells of both xylem and phloem are differentiated from the ...

A tree's vascular system is composed of tubes called xylem and phloem. Back in high school, I learned that xylem carries water and nutrients up from the roots to the leaves and that phloem carries ...

I was a college freshman in Botany 101 when I first learned about xylem and phloem, the two transport tissues which carry water and nutrients up and down a tree's trunk.

The flying spider-monkey tree fern genome provides insights into fern evolution and arborescence. Nature Plants, 2022; 8 (5): 500 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-022-01146-6 ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 41, No. 230 (September 1990), pp. 1143-1148 (6 pages) The xylem and phloem transport of mineral elements from stem nodal roots to the stem and stolon of growing ...

Be watchful to keep your plants hydrated this summer and so maintain the unbroken chain of water in the xylem. ELLEN PEFFLEY taught horticulture at the college level for 28 years, 25 of those at ...

You might while you are out there clearing snow. This is as a result of tree sap freezing. The plumbing of a tree, xylem and phloem tubes, can act just like a pipe. Water expands when it freezes.