that produces both the inner bark cells of the phloem and new living wood cells in the xylem. The phloem transports sugars from leaves to roots. The xylem is a transport tissue and both stores ...

Professor Persson says when xylem cells are growing they first produce the thin primary cell wall, which acts like a corset. "This corset-like structure steers the direction of cell growth and ...

The structure responsible for water transport is the secondary cell wall, which NAIST Prof. Taku Demura has been studying because it is constituted of xylem. "Xylem is an important resource for ...

In mid-September, when xylem stopped increasing in size ... starts and sequesters the majority of carbon fixed in the cell structure. Moreover, although cell enlargement is principally a rapid ...