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    Xylem is a vascular tissue that transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the stems and leaves of plants. It comprises four main cell types: tracheids, vessel elements, xylem fibers, and xylem parenchyma. Tracheids and vessel elements are dead at maturity but their thickened cell walls with deposits of lignin prevent the flow of food and allow for the efficient transport of water. Their pits allow for lateral water movement between cells. Xylem vessel elements form long tubes for transport while tracheids have overlapping ends. Xylem fibers provide mechanical support and xylem parenchyma are living cells that store food and connect primary and secondary xylem.

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    Xylem is a vascular tissue that transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the stems and leaves of plants. It comprises four main cell types: tracheids, vessel elements, xylem fibers, and xylem parenchyma. Tracheids and vessel elements are dead at maturity but their thickened cell walls with deposits of lignin prevent the flow of food and allow for the efficient transport of water. Their pits allow for lateral water movement between cells. Xylem vessel elements form long tubes for transport while tracheids have overlapping ends. Xylem fibers provide mechanical support and xylem parenchyma are living cells that store food and connect primary and secondary xylem.

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    Xylem is a vascular tissue that transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the stems and leaves of plants. It comprises four main cell types: tracheids, vessel elements, xylem fibers, and xylem parenchyma. Tracheids and vessel elements are dead at maturity but their thickened cell walls with deposits of lignin prevent the flow of food and allow for the efficient transport of water. Their pits allow for lateral water movement between cells. Xylem vessel elements form long tubes for transport while tracheids have overlapping ends. Xylem fibers provide mechanical support and xylem parenchyma are living cells that store food and connect primary and secondary xylem.

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    Xylem is a vascular tissue that transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the stems and leaves of plants. It comprises four main cell types: tracheids, vessel elements, xylem fibers, and xylem parenchyma. Tracheids and vessel elements are dead at maturity but their thickened cell walls with deposits of lignin prevent the flow of food and allow for the efficient transport of water. Their pits allow for lateral water movement between cells. Xylem vessel elements form long tubes for transport while tracheids have overlapping ends. Xylem fibers provide mechanical support and xylem parenchyma are living cells that store food and connect primary and secondary xylem.

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    The key takeaways are that xylem tissue transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the stems and leaves. It is made up of more than one cell type and functions as a tube to enable the movement of water.

    The four types of cells that make up xylem tissue are tracheids, vessel elements, xylem fibers (sclerenchyma), and xylem parenchyma.

    Tracheids and vessel elements transport water and have thickened walls containing lignin deposits. They die on maturity and lack organelles to block water flow. They provide mechanical support and have pits on their walls to allow lateral water movement.

    XYLEM

    BY: NUR LIYANA BT ZAINOODIN 6BSN

    A complex tissue contain more than one type of cell

    Xylem

    Vascular tissue

    A tissue that function as a tube/vessel enabling water and other substances(in solution) to move from one part to another part of plant

    FUNCTION OF XYLEM: Transport water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the stems and leaves

    XYLEM COMPRISES 4 TYPES OF CELL

    TRACHEIDS

    VESSEL ELEMENTS

    XYLEM FIBRES (SCLERENCHYMA)

    XYLEM PARENCHYMA

    TRANCHEIDS AND XYLEM VESSEL ELEMENT


    Trancheids and xylem vessel elements die on maturity

    Their wall have been thickened with lignin deposits Prevents entry of food substances No organelles to block water flow

    Provide mechanical support keep the plant upright


    Have pits on their wall

    Allow the lateral movement of water between trancheids and vessels The end of vessel end is open end

    Tracheid differ from vessel elements in shape


    Tracheid is longer but have smaller diameter than vessel elements The end of tracheid overlap with each other, forming a long tube which can facilitate the movement of water.

    The end walls of tracheid have many bordered pits allow water pass through Pits membrane are permeable to water

    PICTURE OF TRACEIDS

    PIT PAIRS AND PIT MEMBRANE


    PIT PAIRS pits in the wall of cell oppose the pits in

    the adjacent cell wall Pit pairs are separated by PIT MEMBRANE

    Made up of primary cell wall and middle lamella Permeable to water

    PIT PAIRS AND PIT MEMBRANE

    XYLEM VESSEL
    Long tube made up of many vessel elements joined

    together end-to-end The end of each vessel are open the cavity form a channel Vessels are more efficient in water transport compared to tracheid Water flowing from one tracheid to another has to pass through bordered pits-resistance to flow water. Flowering plants have both vessel and tracheids. Other plants only have tracheids to transport water.

    Parenchyma cell- the only living cells in the xylem

    tissue

    Store various type of food Form pith rays that connect the primary xylem to secondary xylem

    TWO TYPE OF XYLEM TISSUE

    Primary xylem

    Secondary xylem

    Formed first during the growth of a plant

    Comprises protoxylem and metaxylem

    Formed when secondary thickening occur as a result of vascular cambium division

    Only occur in woody plants

    SECONDARY XYLEM
    Stiff and cannot be flexed
    When the rate of elongation is high, the plant stem is

    most flexible and spiral or annular thickening occur


    If there is not much elongation, scalariform, reticulate

    and pitted thickening occur.

    (refer page 92-Oxford Fajar)

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