LESSON 9

TRANSPORT
IN
PLANTS
REPORTERS : (GROUP 1)
1. Adalin
2. Deuda
3. Espinosa
4. Conde
5. Maranan
 HOW DOES
WATER TRAVEL
UP TREES?
 2 TYPES OF
TRANSPORT
TISSUES:
XYLEM PHLOEM
Transports water Transports food
and dissolved (sugar) made in
minerals from leaves to all parts
roots to leaves of plant.
 2 TYPES OF
TRANSPORT
XYLEMTISSUES:
PHLOEM

Transports water Transports food

and dissolved (sugar) made in
minerals from leaves to all parts
roots to leaves of plant.
XYLEM
 XYLEM
CHARACTERISTICS
 Long hollow
tube stretching
from the root to
leaf
 made up of
many dead cells
 XYLEM

FUNCTION
 Conduct water
and mineral salts
from roots to stems
and leaves.
 Provide mechanical
support for plant.
 XYLEM

ADAPTATION
Empty lumen, no
protoplasm or cross-
walls.
Reduces resistance to
water flowing through
 XYLEM

ADAPTATION
Walls thickened with
lignin.

– Lignin is a hard and

rigid substance.
– Prevents collapse of
the vessel (Mechanical
support)
PHLOEM
 PHLOEM
CHARACTERISTICS
 Consists mainly of sieve
tubes and companion cells
 Sieve tube consists of
columns of sieve tube cells,
that are elongated and thin-
walled.
Sieve Plates are cross-
walls look like a sleeve
 PHLOEM

FUNCTION
Conducts
manufactured food
(sucrose and amino
acids) from the
leaves to the other
parts of the plant..
 PHLOEM

ADAPTATION
Companion cells
have many
mitochondria
 The holes in sieve
plates allow rapid
flow of
manufactured food.
 HOW ARE
VASCULAR TISSUES
ORGANIZED IN
STEMS
 2 VASCULAR
BUNDLES

the xylem and phloem are grouped

together to form vascular bundles.
The phloem lies outside the xylem
2 with a tissue called the cambium
between them
3 The vascular bundles are arranged in
1 3 a ring around a central region called
the pith.
4 4
The region between the vascular
bundles and the epidermis is the
cortex

5 5 The stem is covered by a layer of cells

called the epidermis.
 HOW ARE
VASCULAR TISSUES
ORGANIZED IN
ROOTS

the xylem and phloem are grouped
together to form vascular bundles.
2 The cortex of the root is also a
storage tissue. The innermost layer of
root cortex is called the endodermis.
3
3 The epidermis of the root is the
outermost layer of cells. It bears root
hairs. It is also called the piliferous
layer.
4
Each root hair is a tubular outgrowth
of an epidermal cell.
 HOW ARE
VASCULAR TISSUES
ORGANIZED IN LEAF
 9.2 STUDYING THE
MOVEMENT OF
SUBSTANCE IN
PLANTS

 Using aphids in translocation studies

 Using the ringing experiment
 Using isotopes in translocation studies
Translocation – transport of
manufactured food substances such as
sugars and amino acids.
 USING APHIDS IN TRANSLOCATION
STUDIES

The long mouth part penetrates the leaf or stem,

Insect such as aphids, feed on plant juices.
Can be anaesthetized with carbon dioxide while feeding
Translocation of sugars occurs in the phloem.
 USING THE RINGING EXPERIMENT

Removing the outer layer of phloem tissue from a plant will cause
the plant to swell just above the cut area.
 USING ISOTOPES IN TRANSLOCATION
STUDIES

Carbon-14 is a radioactive
carbon isotope and its Presence
can be detected by x-ray
photographic film
It can be used to show that
manufactured food substances
are transported by phloem.
 only phloem shows
radioactivity