Question

Name the two types of elements found in phloem?

Answer 1

Phloem consists of sieve tubes, companion cells, phloem fibres and phloem parenchyma.

Answer 2

Phloem is the living tissue that transports food, especially the sugar sucrose, made by the leaves to all other parts of the plant. The two type of elements found in Phloem are: 

a) Sieve elements 

b) Companion cells 

These two elements in phloem are observed to play an integral role in the functioning of each other.