Re: what do veins we see on a leaf transport?

Date: Fri Jul 18 10:05:02 2008
Posted By: Susan Letcher, Grad student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
Area of science: Botany
ID: 1216115048.Bt

Message:

Dear Hasanah,

The veins of a plant are composed of two different kinds of tissue. The tubelike xylem cells carry water and nutrients from the roots upward, and the phloem cells carry sugar from the leaves, where it is manufactured during photosynthesis, to the rest of the plant.

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