noun

• The vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem.

  Compare with phloem

  ‘Generally, a high recycling from xylem to phloem was observed in the old parts of the shoot.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The conducting tissues within the vascular bundles are the xylem and phloem.’
  • ‘The estimation of the water uptake and water flow in xylem and phloem was outlined by Jiang et al..’
  • ‘In multicellular plants fluxes to and from roots via xylem and phloem further complicate the situation.’
  • ‘Stained cells corresponding to immature xylem were detected in vascular bundles of flowers and fruits.’