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Ascent of Sap | Water movement up a Plant - Transpiration Pull | Transport in Plants | Biology

As various ions from the soil are actively transported into the vascular tissues of the roots, water follows and increases the pressure inside the xylem. This positive pressure is called root pressure and can be responsible for pushing up water to small heights in the stem. Effects of root pressure is observable at night and early morning when evaporation is low, and excess water collects in the form of droplets around special openings of veins near the tip of grass blades, and leaves of many herbaceous parts. Such water loss in its liquid phase is known as guttation. The greatest contribution of root pressure may be to re-establish the continuous chains of water molecules in the xylem which often break under the enormous tensions created by transpiration. Water is mainly “pulled” through the plant, and that the driving force for this process is transpiration from the leaves. This is referred to as the cohesion-tension-transpiration pull model of water transport. The transpiration driven ascent of xylem sap depends mainly on the physical properties of water such as cohesion, adhesion, and surface tension. These properties give water high tensile strength and high capillarity. In plants capillarity is aided by the small diameter of tracheary elements - the tracheids and vessel elements. Measurements reveal that the forces generated by transpiration can create pressures sufficient to lift a xylem sized column of water over 130 metres high. #ascent_of_sap #water_movement_up_a_plant #root_pressure #transpiration_pull #neet2021