noun

• The vascular tissue in plants which conducts sugars and other metabolic products downwards from the leaves.

  ‘The conducting tissues within the vascular bundles are the xylem and phloem.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘For the stem, the outermost green tissue, including both phloem and cambium were estimated.’
  • ‘Root tissue samples are hereafter referred to as periderm, phloem and xylem.’
  • ‘Subsequently, this cambium produces both wound xylem and wound phloem and thus contributes to further thickening.’
  • ‘Formation of phloem and early xylem was directly related to fruitlet size.’