(thing) by melodrame Thu Dec 07 2000 at 2:02:59
Sieve-tube members, the conducting cells of the phloem, function mainly to transport sugars and other organic materials.

They are alive at maturity and have only primary cell walls. They are quite similar to parenchyma but lack a nucleus and certain other organelles.

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