Lesson 3.

Transport in Plants

• Plants transport water, carbohydrates, minerals, and other nutrients from one organ to
another — between roots, leaves, flowers, and fruits.

• Transport can be
o Short distance
▪ Apoplastic route
▪ Symplastic route
▪ Transmembrane route
o Long distance
• Types of membranes
o Freely permeable
o Selectively permeable
o Completely impermeable

• Types of Transport
o Passive Transport
▪ Diffusion
✓ Osmosis
o Tonicity
▪ Isotonic
▪ Hypotonic
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 ▪ Hypertonic
o Water potential
o Solute potential
o Pressure potential
✓ Facilitated diffusion
o Channel protein
▪ Ion channels
▪ aquaporin
o Carrier protein
o Active Transport
▪ Sodium potassium pump
▪ Proton pump
▪ Co-transport

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Davao University for the first semester of 2021-2022 only. If you received this file by mistake, kindly
delete it and inform the professor of the course through this email add: ctmagculia@addu.edu.ph.
Thank you.