tracheophyte
Also known as higher plants, vascular plant, vascular plants, higher plant, tracheophytes, tracheophyta
clade of plants with xylem and phloem
AI overview
Tracheophytes are plants that have specialized internal plumbing systems called xylem and phloem, which transport water and nutrients throughout their bodies. This innovation allowed plants to grow larger and colonize drier environments, making tracheophytes the dominant plants on land today.
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Research
867,410 papers- Plant periderm as a continuum in structural organisation: a tracheophyte-wide survey and hypotheses on evolution.ReviewBiological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2024Lalica MAK, Tomescu AMFDOI: 10.1111/brv.13064
- Tracheophyte genomes keep track of the deep evolution of the Caulimoviridae.Scientific reports · 2018Diop SI, Geering ADW, Alfama-Depauw F et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16399-x
- Adaptation of the gymnosperms to the conditions of irradiation in Chornobyl zone: from morphological anomalies to the molecular genetic consequences.ReviewTSitologiia i genetika · 2016Yemets AI, Blume RY, Sorochinsky BV
- Mechanism of Overwintering in Trees.ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology · 2018Arakawa K, Kasuga J, Takata N
Article
Vascular plants (from Latin vasculum 'duct'), also called tracheophytes ( UK: /ˈtrækiːəˌfaɪts/, US: /ˈtreɪkiːəˌfaɪts/) or collectively Tracheophyta (/ˌtreɪkiːˈɒfɪtə/; from Ancient Greek τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία (trakheîa artēría) 'windpipe' and φυτά (phutá) 'plants'), are plants that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant. They also have a specialized non-lignified tissue (the phloem) to conduct products of photosynthesis. The group includes most land plants (c. 300,000 accepted known species) excluding mosses.
Vascular plants include the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (including conifers), and angiosperms (flowering plants). They are contrasted with nonvascular plants such as mosses and green algae. Scientific names for the vascular plants group include Tracheophyta, Tracheobionta and Equisetopsida sensu lato. Some early land plants (the rhyniophytes) had less developed vascular tissue; the term eutracheophyte has been used for all other vascular plants, including all living ones.