One goes up... and one goes down. 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 ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 155/156, Selected papers from the PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL PLANT NUTRITION COLLOQUIUM (October 1993), pp. 273-276 (4 pages) Xylem sap of sinker (tap) root, cluster ...

Xylem sap of proteoid roots, lateral roots, sinker root and age classes of trunk segments, and phloem sap of mid-trunks were collected from trees of Banksia prionotes (Proteaceae) in native habitat on ...

Leaf vasculature plays a pivotal role in nutrient transport and leaf morphology. A new study in Brassica rapa reveals the ...

Figure 1: Phloem and xylem transport in plants. Plants possess different transport systems that can be classified according to the distance and the direction of transport. To assure that the ...

Identifying phloem in a conifer stem cross-section requires careful observation and attention to several key characteristics. These features, when considered together, can help differentiate phloem ...

You probably don’t think you need a botany lesson when all you want to know is how to keep your Christmas tree fresh this season. But explaining a few things might make the whole process make sense.

Most of the businesses located along Canyon Road are devoted to art or dining. The owners of a new enterprise along that historic street are trying to introduce horticulture to the mix. Beth Succop ...

A slim little book came the other day from the editors of American Heritage dictionaries. It was provocatively titled, "100 Words Every High School Freshman Should Know." No one who loves the English ...

Plants come in all shapes and sizes, allowing them to fit into unique niches in the landscape, but they can be quite complex organisms. In order to select the most appropriate plants for a given ...