Apoplastic and Symplastic Transport

How does H20 move in plants

Apoplast

water moves outside cells without passing through cell memerane

Symplast

water moves through the cells by moving through plasmodesmata (channels traversing plant cell walls)

plasmodesmata are holes in

cell membranes

The … cells prevent water from entering the steele (xlyem) through the apoplast.

casparian strip

Water that has entered the steele traveled through the. … How is this a way water is filtered ?

symplast

In this way water is filtered as it has to go through a cell membrane

What does the casparian strip do

Prevents water from entering xylem via apoplast

In order for water to reach the xylem from the soil

it can travel through both apoplast and symplast but has to cross through the symplast to get to the xylem.

Another way to describe the apoplast would be

the cell wall and gaps between cells