Either way, they are never wanted. We’re talking about those annoying white strings on bananas, or more technically, “phloem bundles.” (Appetizing name, right?) Anyone who’s peeled a ...

Many people choose to pick out the stringy bits of a banana after assuming it is just part of the peel, but a doctor is urging people to stop doing that. The strands are actually phloem bundles, which ...

The commenter continued that as time passes, the xylem and phloem (vascular tissues in plants that transport water, nutrients, and food throughout the plant) expand with the width of the tree ...

A now-former science school teacher from New Jersey says that what once were many healthy, tan crapemyrtle trees throughout an Horry County neighborhood are ...

The vascular network consisting of phloem and xylem (wood) provides plants with structural support and long-distance transport that specifies further downstream processes in the sink tissues (such as ...

Specialised plant cells include root hair cells, palisade cells, xylem cells and phloem cells. Just like animals, plants are made of tiny little cells. Like animal cells, basic plant cells have a ...

This is then converted into sucrose. The sucrose is transported around the plant in phloem vessels. It needs to be able to reach all cells in the plant so that the sucrose can be converted back ...