phloem

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• Young axes have higher values of structural Young's modulus than do older stages and this is reflected by the presence of fibre tissues, primary phloem fibres and collenchyma placed near the periphery of young axes.
• In vascular plant biology, electro-osmosis is also used as an alternative or supplemental explanation for the movement of polar liquids via the phloem.
• —In autumn, with a great creaking and a snapping of twigs, they break away from trunks grown thick with bark and phloem, which become husks with jagged tips, or later often topple from sheer grief. 2009 June
• The leafhopper acquires the phytoplasma while feeding by inserting its stylet a long, slender hollow feeding structure into the phloem of infected plants and withdrawing the phytoplasma with the plant sap. E-China-See-Ya~A Public Service Announcement « Fairegarden
• Instead, it appears that there is a barrier to movement between the post-phloem symplast and the nucellus.
• Routinely, over 50 l of phloem sap was collected, however, only a few microlitres were required for analysis.
• The stage IV stem illustrated here shows an outer covering of periderm with fine strips of fibres formed from the secondary phloem.
• After a female borer lays its eggs on an ash tree, the larvae burrow through the bark and feed on vascular tissue called the phloem, cutting off the tree's supply of nutrients and starving it to death. The Bugs Rescuing the Baseball Bats
• Secondary phloem fibres develop from the vascular cambium although secondary vascular growth remains limited.
• The cambium produces phloem tissue to the outside and xylem tissue to the inside.