10.1.7 Moving substances around plants + Xylem structure

• Xylem

  Transports substances around plants
• Phloem

  Transports substances around plants
• Movement of water through a plant

  soil -> root hair cell -> cortex -> xylem -> mesophyll cells in leaf
• Xylem


  • Found above phloem in the vascular bundles of the leaf
  • Found on the inside of the vascular bundles in the stem
  • Found on the inside of the root (the X shape)
  • Vessels are normally larger in size than phloem
• Xylem vessels are also normally larger in size than phloem
• Xylem


  • Adaptations of xylem
• Summary of features of xylem