The tissue in higher plants that constitutes the vascular system, consisting of phloem and xylem, by which water and nutrients are conducted throughout the plant.
Example sentencesExamples
Long-distance transport of carbohydrate, the major substrate for plant growth, occurs within the phloem vascular tissue.
More recent examination, however, has shown that the plant does not contain true vascular tissue but has conducting cells more like those found in some mosses.
These plants did not have roots or leaves like the plants most common today, and many had no vascular tissue at all.
This is the strategy taken by vascular plants, which have special vascular tissues to distribute water throughout their system.
To pass from the soil solution into root vascular tissues, water has to flow radially across a series of concentric cell layers.
Definition of vascular tissue in US English:
vascular tissue
noun
The tissue in higher plants that constitutes the vascular system, consisting of phloem and xylem, by which water and nutrients are conducted throughout the plant.
Example sentencesExamples
Long-distance transport of carbohydrate, the major substrate for plant growth, occurs within the phloem vascular tissue.
These plants did not have roots or leaves like the plants most common today, and many had no vascular tissue at all.
More recent examination, however, has shown that the plant does not contain true vascular tissue but has conducting cells more like those found in some mosses.
This is the strategy taken by vascular plants, which have special vascular tissues to distribute water throughout their system.
To pass from the soil solution into root vascular tissues, water has to flow radially across a series of concentric cell layers.