Transpiration

Interrelated Transport

Absorption
 Loss of water in the
form of water vapor
Transpiration from the surfaces of
the plants due to
evaporation

Transport
• Xylem vessels are hollow
tubes made up of dead cells
• This structure allows continuous water streams

Water in the cortex

cells near xylem
vessels enter xylem
vessels due to
transpiration pull
mesophyll cell

The surface of
The air space becomes
mesophyll cell are The water evaporates almost saturated with
covered with a film of into the air space water vapour
water

The water vapour

Water vapour therefore concentration in the air
diffuses through stoma space is now higher
into the atmosphere than in the atmosphere
outside the leaf
 As water is drawn into The water potential in
Water in the cortex cells
the inner cells, the water the soil is now higher
near xylem vessels enter
potential in the root cells than those of the root
xylem vessels due to
become lower hair cells

This decreases the water Therefore, water in the

Some water moves
potential of cytoplasm of soil enters the root hair
inwards the cell wall
the cortex cells cells by osmosis

Water potential gradient

Water moves from is set up across the
This is how the water is
neighbouring cells to cortex causing water to
absorbed into the root
these cells by osmosis move inwards from cell
to cell by osmosis

Absorption
of water