The document discusses the transport structures and processes in plants. It describes that xylem transports water and minerals upwards from the roots to the leaves, while phloem transports food like sugars downward from leaves to other plant parts. Transpiration pulls water through the xylem and creates a transpiration stream. The document also explains experiments that demonstrate phloem transport of food.

2. Recap Waxy layer which protects the plant & conserves water mesophyll Contains chloroplasts: Specialized for light absorption Layer contains air spaces: Specialized for gas exchange Exchange water & gases with the atmosphere Vascular Tissue

6. Recall on Photosynthesis How does food get from the leaves to other parts of the plant? How does water get absorb from the soil into and move around the plant?

7. Transport Structures

9. Development of Xylem Tracheids Xylem vessels Xylem tissue contains Xylem cells (Tracheids) and Xylem vessels

13. Do you know?

29. Transport Structures Leaf Stem Root Xylem Xylem Phloem Xylem Phloem Phloem

30. Transport of Water

31. Root Stem Leaves

32. Water uptake in ROOT Animation

37. Water transport in STEM You have learnt that water is transported from the root to the stem and the leaf. How does the plant transport water upwards against gravity??

43. Potometer The rate at which plants take up water depends on the rate of transpiration- the faster a plant transpires, the faster it takes up water.

46. Capillary Action

48. Transport of Food

50. Animation Animation

56. Wilting of plant