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The 58 pages that link to Xylem, each with the reason it gives.

• RhizomeRelated: Xylem carries water through the rhizome to developing shoots.

• LigninRelated: Lignified xylem walls resist collapse as water moves under tension.

• LeafRelated: Xylem supplies the water lost from leaves during transpiration.

• Flowering plantRelated: Its vessels are a prominent feature of many flowering plant lineages.

• FernRelated: Xylem lets many ferns grow larger than nonvascular plants.

• GraftingRelated: New xylem across the graft union restores much of the water pathway.

• Vascular cambiumRelated: Secondary xylem is one of the cambium’s two principal products.

• LycophyteRelated: Xylem enables lycophytes to transport water through upright shoots.

• RootRelated: Xylem carries resources absorbed by roots toward shoots and leaves.

• Plant nutritionRelated: Xylem carries many absorbed mineral nutrients upward with the transpiration stream.

• Plant stemRelated: Its water-conducting vessels run through stems and also help keep them upright.

• Woody plantRelated: Secondary xylem forms most of the wood in woody stems and roots.

• Wood grainRelated: The elongated cells of secondary xylem largely determine wood’s grain direction.

• AmborellaRelated: Amborella lacks vessel elements, a feature relevant to reconstructing early angiosperm wood.

• Deciduous plantRelated: Water supply constrains leaf function during freezing or dry seasons.

• EmbryophyteRelated: Xylem lets many embryophytes move water from roots to aerial tissues.

• MicrophyllRelated: Xylem forms part of the vascular strand running through a microphyll.

• PopulusRelated: Populus wood is largely xylem, making its formation a central research topic.

• EuphyllophyteRelated: Its evolution helped enable the complex bodies found across vascular plants.

• MistletoeRelated: Mistletoes commonly obtain water and minerals by connecting their haustoria to host xylem.

• Panama diseaseRelated: Fungal growth and plant responses impair water movement through this tissue.

• RhyniophyteRelated: Xylem occurs in the preserved central conducting strands of several rhyniophytes.

• Acer saccharumRelated: Xylem pathways conduct sap through the trunk during the sugaring season.

• Ulmus americanaRelated: Dutch elm disease blocks water-conducting vessels in the tree.

• EndodermisRelated: The endodermis regulates substances before they enter the root’s xylem.

• Fusarium wiltRelated: Fusarium colonizes this water-conducting tissue as disease develops.

• LeafhopperRelated: Some leafhoppers specialize in extracting dilute xylem sap.

• Sequoia sempervirensRelated: Water must travel through xylem from the roots to a coast redwood's high canopy.

• ZosterophyllRelated: Its water-conducting tissue let zosterophyll axes grow upright on land.

• Adansonia digitataRelated: Xylem moves water through the tree’s unusually large trunk and branches.

• PolysporangiophyteRelated: Xylem helped vascular members support upright, branching sporophytes.

• ProgymnospermRelated: Progymnosperm wood consisted largely of secondary xylem.

• PteridophyteRelated: Its water-conducting tissue enables pteridophytes to grow larger than nonvascular plants.

• AphrophoridaeRelated: Many spittlebugs feed on xylem sap, a dilute fluid that requires high intake.

• Fruit tree physiologyRelated: Its water supply affects canopy growth and fruit development.

• Pinus longaevaRelated: Its narrow, persistent living growth can continue to function even as much of the trunk dies.

• TrimerophytopsidaRelated: Its conducting strands are among the key features preserved in trimerophyte fossils.