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What is a phloem?

What is a phloem? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of sugars and nutrients manufactured in the shoot.
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In the intact plant, inositol is synthesized in the leaf in response to salinization, and transported to the root in phloem.
In multicellular plants fluxes to and from roots via xylem and phloem further complicate the situation.
In Florida, Prokelisia are present throughout the year feeding on the phloem and laying eggs into the adaxial surfaces of the leaves.
Cytokinins were analysed in leaf extracts, leaf phloem exudate and in the shoot apical meristem at different times during floral transition.
Within the pod wall vasculature, phloem companion cells also appear to differentiate transfer cell-like wall ingrowths.
In the vascular tissue of woody species, parenchyma cells include those in phloem, and the ray cells and axial parenchyma cells in xylem.

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