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plant sap
Sign in to saveAlso known as sap, resin, tree sap, sap (plant), xylem sap, phloem sap, treesap, natural latex
thumb|upright|Sap droplets of Dracaena trifasciata
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Research
5,946 papers- Ento(o)mics: the intersection of 'omic' approaches to decipher plant defense against sap-sucking insect pests.Current opinion in plant biology · 2020
- Research progress on plant stress-associated protein (SAP) family: Master regulators to deal with environmental stresses.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2024
- Plant fluid proteomics: Delving into the xylem sap, phloem sap and apoplastic fluid proteomes.Biochimica et biophysica acta · 2016
- Phloem development.The New phytologist · 2023
- Does plant form recapitulate its therapeutic function? a test for red sap plants.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2026
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Types of sap
- Xylem sap
- Phloem sap
- Human uses
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|upright|Sap droplets of Dracaena trifasciata
Sap is a fluid transported in the xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “plant sap” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.