Concept information
Preferred term
Phloem
Type
-
mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- Plant tissue that carries nutrients, especially sucrose, by turgor pressure. Movement is bidirectional, in contrast to XYLEM where it is only upward. Phloem originates and grows outwards from meristematic cells (MERISTEM) in the vascular cambium. P-proteins, a type of LECTINS, are characteristically found in phloem.
Broader concept
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- adverse effects (Qualifier)
- anatomy & histology (Qualifier)
- chemistry (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- cytology (Qualifier)
- drug effects (Qualifier)
- embryology (Qualifier)
- enzymology (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- growth & development (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- microbiology (Qualifier)
- parasitology (Qualifier)
- physiology (Qualifier)
- poisoning (Qualifier)
- radiation effects (Qualifier)
- toxicity (Qualifier)
- ultrastructure (Qualifier)
- virology (Qualifier)
In other languages
-
French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-XZ41NN7G-3
{{label}}
{{#each values }} {{! loop through ConceptPropertyValue objects }}
{{#if prefLabel }}
{{/if}}
{{/each}}
{{#if notation }}{{ notation }} {{/if}}{{ prefLabel }}
{{#ifDifferentLabelLang lang }} ({{ lang }}){{/ifDifferentLabelLang}}
{{#if vocabName }}
{{ vocabName }}
{{/if}}