Those two terms describe the complex tissues that transport food and water in a plant, providing it with sufficient food, ...

“We’re kind of in the middle of that heaviest portion of the pest pressure,” Fike said. The pest feeds just under the ash ...

In a mature flowering plant or tree, most of the cells that make up the xylem are specialised cells called vessels.

Either way, they are never wanted. We’re talking about those annoying white strings on bananas, or more technically, “phloem bundles.” (Appetizing name, right?) Anyone who’s peeled a ...

A citrus quarantine has been declared in Fallbrook after officials detected the presence of the deadly citrus tree disease ...

Calcium is translocated from roots to shoots via the xylem in the vine’s transpiration stream. Calcium may “leak” from the xylem laterally, but it isn’t redistributed via the phloem, so Ca transport ...

Emerald ash borer was found Sept. 4 in North Dakota for the first time. EAB is an invasive, destructive insect that eats the ...

The Harrisonburg Public Works Department said despite the lanternflies’ prominence right now, there is reason to be ...

At the age of 70, I can remember too many epidemics of tree-killing pests sweeping through the Northeastern landscape.

This evaporation in turn allows further water to be absorbed by the roots. Alfred explains that this is transpiration. Alfred also explains that the products of photosynthesis are transported via the ...