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What is a phloem?

What is a phloem? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of sugars and nutrients manufactured in the shoot.
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In Florida, Prokelisia are present throughout the year feeding on the phloem and laying eggs into the adaxial surfaces of the leaves.
It possessed secondary xylem and secondary phloem, which were produced by a bifacial vascular cambium with ray and fusiform initials.
Within the pod wall vasculature, phloem companion cells also appear to differentiate transfer cell-like wall ingrowths.
Cytokinins were analysed in leaf extracts, leaf phloem exudate and in the shoot apical meristem at different times during floral transition.
The phloem of some stems also contains thick-walled, elongate fiber cells which are called bast fibers.
Potassium has the property of high phloem mobility and, as a result, of a high degree of reutilization by retranslocation via phloem.

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