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
3
the xylem and phloem are grouped 3 The epidermis of the root is the
together to form vascular bundles. outermost layer of cells. It bears root
hairs. It is also called the piliferous
layer.
2 The cortex of the root is also a
4
storage tissue. The innermost layer of Each root hair is a tubular outgrowth
root cortex is called the endodermis. 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
