How to Use phloem in a Sentence

phloem

noun

• The fungi thrive in those channels and the phloem and wood around it.
  — Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
• Just inside the bark is a cylinder of tissue known as the phloem.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 16 Apr. 2020
• The beetles chewed and fed on the tree’s phloem, conduits just below the bark for the tree’s life-giving juices.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 13 May 2017
• Larvae hatch from eggs and chew side galleries, feeding on the phloem and the fungi.
  — Hillary Rosner, National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2020
• The beetles, just a quarter-inch long, can each lay up to 150 eggs in the phloem layer beneath a tree's bark on top of the wood.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2018
• When the phloem is lost all the way around by injury like this (or by weed trimmer damage at ground line), the roots will die and the tree will die.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 16 Apr. 2020
• The galleries block nutrient flow in the tree’s phloem layer.
  — Hillary Rosner, National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2020
• In the flytrap, the phloem—the tissue that transports nutrients through a plant—contains ion channels through which charged particles can flow.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022
• Then their offspring — spruce beetle larvae — feed on the tree’s phloem tissue, the sometimes green, sappy layer just below that bark.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2022
• If the tree is still creating foliage, then water and nutrients are being transported from the roots to the tree canopy, so the phloem and xylem are still functional.
  — oregonlive, 9 Feb. 2020
• Cane bark (phloem) and wood (xylem) damage can occur in grapevines at temperatures from minus 4 to minus 13.
  — Eric Degerman, idahostatesman, 14 Apr. 2017
• The part of the circulatory system (called the vascular system in plants) that carries the food (basically sugar water) is located just below the bark and is called the phloem.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 18 May 2019
• Christopher Vincent, a physiologist at the University of Florida who studies citrus greening, said the waxy coating on the leaves of orange trees has been an impediment to delivering oxytetracycline into the plant’s phloem, or vascular system.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019

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