Revise the structure of a leaf and how it has several adaptations for photosynthesis with this BBC Bitesize Biology KS3 guide. ... (xylem and phloem) To transport water, mineral ions and glucose ...

Tissue Structure of Tree Leaf. By Zephyris - commons.wikimedia.org. Leaves are food factories for the tree. ... Vascular bundle – Xylem and phloem tissues, commonly known as leaf veins.

The phloem transports sugars from leaves to roots. The xylem is a transport tissue and both stores starch and conducts water and substances dissolved in water to leaves. 2 ...

The two tissue types that comprise the conducting system of plants are the xylem and phloem (zigh-lem and flow-um). Both tissues are found throughout the plant, ... and leaf to atmosphere.

Figure 1: Passive phloem loading in plants and in the synthetic tree-on-a-chip. Using our synthetic passive loader, we study in this paper the full dynamics of passive phloem loading, set by the ...