Seed plants, such as soybeans, store large amounts of protein in specialized organelles called protein storage vacuoles.

Transport in biology means carrying substance absorbed or made in the body of an organism to all other parts of its body. In plants, it is only water and minerals that need to be transported to ...

Bordered pits are cavities in the thick secondary cell walls of both vessels and tracheids that are essential components in the water-transport system of higher plants. The pit membrane ...

Figure 1: Phloem and xylem transport in plants. Plants possess different transport systems that can be classified according to the distance and the direction of transport. To assure that the ...

Chemical transport in plants likened to that of humans Date: February 21, 2014 Source: Missouri University of Science and Technology Summary: Plant roots and certain human membrane systems resist ...

Revising transport systems in plants? Test your understanding of different transports systems with this interactive biology quiz. Develop your understanding of transport systems in plants with ...

More information: Sam W. Henderson et al, Protein Structural Modeling and Transport Thermodynamics Reveal That Plant Cation–Chloride Cotransporters Mediate Potassium–Chloride Symport ...

and absorption (whereby they’re taken up by the plants’ transport system) of metals via the plant roots. What we found was remarkable. The water hyacinth was able to remove highly toxic ...