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Cell Water Symplast Moves Root Hair Describe Pathway

The symplast pathway involves water movement through the continuous cytoplasm of living plant cells connected by plasmodesmata, moving by osmosis from cell to cell until reaching the xylem.

La vía simplástica implica el movimiento del agua a través del citoplasma continuo de células vegetales vivas conectadas por plasmodesmos, moviéndose por ósmosis de una célula a otra hasta alcanzar el xilema.

Front Describe the symplast pathway of water movement.
Back Symplast pathway:
  • Water moves thru continuous cytoplasm of living plant cells connected thru plasmodesmata (symplast)
  • Root hair cell has higher water potential than next cell bc water diffused into it making it more dilute
  • Water moves from root hair cell to adjacent cell by osmosis, continues cell to cell until xylem reached


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