HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Plant transport tissues-xylem and phloem. Plants have two transport systems-xylem and phloem . Xylem transports water and minerals. Phloem transports sugars and amino acids dissolved in water.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sugars produced in sources, such as leaves, need to be delivered to growing parts of the plant via the phloem in a process called translocation, or movement of sugar.

Detailed explanation-3: -Phloem, the vascular tissue responsible for transporting organic nutrients around the plant body, carries dissolved sugars from the leaves (their site of production) or storage sites to other parts of the plant that require nutrients.

Detailed explanation-4: -Water and sugars are transported by xylem vessels and phloem tubes, respectively. Since these two conduits are hydraulically connected, it can be expected that both transport processes are physiologically coupled.

Detailed explanation-5: -Phloem carries vital sugars from photosynthesis to other areas of the plant. Xylem carries water and nutrients from the soil to the foliage of plants. In short, phloem are vessels that carry food from the plant’s leaves to the stem and roots where the food can be stored and used.