2.52 Xylem

1. Minerals are dissolved in the water and therefore taken up through the root system along with the water.
2. Water is taken up by the plant and transported into the leaf or other places such as the terminal bud.
3. The tissue which the solution moves up through, called the xylem.
4. The solution always moves in only one direction that is from the roots upward in the plant.
5. The xylem is below the cambium.
6. When you look at the stem the long way, you can extract the xylem. We find a tubular system which have small lignin rings as additional thickening to the cell wall. The cell wall is around the tube.
7. Water along with the dissolved minerals travel up through these tubes