Transport in Plants Translocation: the process of transporting

manufactures food by the phloem tissue.

- Plants consume about 120 liters (32 gallons) of
Stem: Houses the vascular tissue of plants, which
water, 30 times more than what a person needs.
transports substances between the roots and the
- Reason why plants exhibit this unquenchable thirst:
leaves.
In animals, including humans, fluids tend to
recycle through a closed circulatory system.
Transpiration
In Plants, water travels in a generally one-way
The tallest and oldest living trees on Earth grow in
path from roots through stems to leaves, then out
Northern California, USA which is the Sequoia trees
into the environment. A steady supply of water
that can live for 1200 to 1800 year.
enables a plant to carry out photosynthesis. With
Hyperion: was the name given to the tallest redwood
enough water, plants remain crisp and cell maintain
tree (sequoia tree) discovered.
their rigidity so a plant can stand erect. Water also
helps plants stay cool despite the direct impact of
How do plants manage to get water so high?
the sun’s rays on their leaves and stems. Most
The water is pulled up through a plant as it
importantly, water transports substances in plants
evaporates from the leaves.
- 90% of a plant is water.
Stomata: Tiny pores that covers the leaves of a plant
Transpiration: It is the loss of water when the
One-way Transport
stomata open and water diffuses out of the leaves.
Roots have two chief function: to anchor itself on the
ground and to absorb water and minerals from the
soil.

Non-Vascular Plants: are plants without a vascular

system consisting of Phloem and Xylem. They not
only lack vascular tissues but they also lack leaves,
seeds and flowers and instead of roots they have
hair-like Rhizoids to anchor them into the ground.
Vascular Plants: is any one of a number of plants
with specialized vascular tissue, xylem and phloem
which are responsible for moving water, minerals,
and products of photosynthesis throughout the
plant.
Herbaceous Plants: herbaceous plants in botany,
frequently shortened as herb, are vascular plants
that have no persistent woody stems above ground.
Herb has other meaning in cooking, medicine, and
other fields.
Woody Plants: A woody plant is a plant that
produces wood as its structural tissue.
Gymnosperms: are a group of seed-producing plants
Angiosperms: Also called as ‘flowering plants’
There are 12 groups of plants

Plant Vascular Tissue

Xylem: Xylem tissue has two function: carry water
and dissolved mineral salts from the roots to the
stems and leaves, and provide mechanical support
within the plant.
Phloem: Conducts manufactured food (sugars and
amino acids) from the green parts of the plants,
especially the leaves to the other parts of the plant.
Phloem also conducts sugar from the sites of storage
to where it is needed.