We have looked at seeds and roots of plants, and now we are going to study the stems. Plant stems are defined as the axis, or the ...

It forms a solid support. The phloem is towards the centre, outside the xylem. Any green part of a plant above ground, where it is exposed to light, can photosynthesise. But a plant’s leaves are ...

Since the xylem’s function is to carry water and dissolved nutrients to the upper parts of the plant, having air bubbles form would be a negative thing for the plant’s survival. When and how ...

[BeraAjan] has built one using plant xylem. The inspiration for this filter came from an MIT paper, and the plant xylem in question isn’t the thin layer we were expecting but a far thicker one ...