Gaston A. Pizzio, Julio Paez-Valencia, Aswad S. Khadilkar, Kamesh Regmi, Araceli Patron-Soberano, Shangji Zhang, Jonathan Sanchez-Lares, Tara Furstenau, Jisheng Li ...

Interxylary phloem is here defined as strands or bands of phloem embedded within the secondary xylem of a stem or root of a plant that has a single vascular cambium. In this definition, interxylary ...

Numerous insects and pathogens extract nutrients from phloem tissue buried deep inside plants. These phloem-feeding insects and pathogens cause tremendous economic losses worldwide and represent some ...

Phloem diseases, including the economically devastating citrus greening, are particularly difficult to study because phloem cells -- essential for plant nutrient transport -- are difficult to access ...