Question

how is food transported in plants

Answer 1

food transport by phloem tissue in plant.

In vascular plants, phloem is the living tissuethat carries organic nutrients (known as photosynthate), in particular, sucrose, a sugar, to all parts of the plant where needed. In trees, the phloem is the innermost layer of the bark, hence the name, derived from the Greek word (phloios) meaning "bark". The phloem is concerned mainly with the transport of soluble organic material made during photosynthesis. This is called translocation.Structure

Answer 2

The phloem is responsible for translocation of nutrients and sugar like carbohydrates, produced by the leaves to areas of the plant that are metabolically active. The xylem is also composed of elongated cells like the phloem. However, xylem is especially accountable for transporting water to all parts of the plants from the roots. Since they serve such an important function, a single tree would have a lot of xylem tissues.

Basically- phloem>transports nutrients

                xylem>transports water

Xylem is unidirectional (shoot to root) whereas phloem can transport nutrients in both directions.

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