Explain how water and sugars are moved throughout the plant.?

Question

Explain how water and sugars are moved throughout the plant. Be thorough in your answers. Include a section in which you discuss the symbiotic associations of plants, and the role of the casparian strip in retaining water in the plants tissue.

Answer 1

water is moved only upward through Xylem

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food on the other hand goes both upward and downwards through Phloem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phloem#Func...

Sorry couldn't explain it myself,I study in my mother tongue which is not english so I do not know the correct terms in english