Talk:Xylem

message: American English was introduced to this article 23:09, 23 January 2005, with hyphenless "nonliving"‎. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 12:12, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: :Oppose I do not believe that every information need to stay only in giantic compilations of it's superordinate topic. 
:Tracheid is not the synonymum of xylem nor such merging would help to understand the topic of tracheids, tracheids formation, it's contribution to plant developement, the role of auxin to plant organ selforganisation. Nor inclusion of all that stuff in the xylem would help the xylem article, as not all those actions are relevant to xylem etc. Simply let each information unit have it's own article. We can simply borow some descriptive sentences from one article to the second one. It does'nt harm anything. Reo ON  |  +++ 23:03, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge of Tracheid into xylem 

message: Well, obviously I am glad to see people taking an interest, and even more glad to see some movement in this incomprehensible deadlock. However, this insertion of a discussion on vessel elements means that in effect the merge is going through, here and now. To me it looks as if clarity would be served by moving everything on vessel elements into either vessel element or into a evolution related topic (like the big vascular system entry that was hinted at. Brya 21:54, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose on the basis that the xylem article is still too unstable to merge anything into it. In cases of incomprehensible deadlocks we must go with the no concensus - no merge plan, clear the tags, and allow progress to resume. Meggar 18:27, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Note

message: For the simpler folk amongst us, could you put in a statement (if it is true) that "in trees, all the inside wood of the tree is xylem.  In other words, soil water with nutrients is transported by the entire stem of the tree, exclusive of the outer layer which transports sugars from the leaves around the tree to where it is needed."  This is implied by the article but is it indeed so?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.239.169.115 (talk) 05:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it is not so.  The central wood (heartwood) in a tree usually is dead and no longer functional.  In tropical trees, the center may even rot away, leaving the tree as a hollow cylinder.  Only the living xylem continues to transport.  --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:29, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In addition, not all the sapwood conducts water; in many temperate oaks, only the last year of xylem conducts water, all the previous years' vessels being blocked by air embolisms.--Curtis Clark (talk) 05:46, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Xylem function

message: In the section "Primary and secondary xylem" it says "Metaxylem has wider vessels and tracheids than primary xylem.".
This should probably be edited to "Metaxylem has wider vessels and tracheids than secondary xylem.", as Metaxylem is part of the primary Xylem and the vessels of sec. Xylem are generally wider. 
Can s.o. please confirm and maybe edit this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.23.254.52 (talk) 20:04, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch, but I think it means "than protoxylem". Depending on the plant, the metaxylem vessel elements can be wider or narrower than secondary xylem elements.--Curtis Clark (talk) 20:39, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary Xylem vs. Metaxylem 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: It might add to this section if there was a short description of hydrogen bonds and the role they play or just a hyperlink added. At the moment it says only adhesion as the reason the water moves through the elements. 
Frazie25 (talk) 07:03, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main Function - upward water transport 

message: The article Ascent of sap, which (from what I can see) could be alternatively be titled "how xylem work", seems a bit redundant. Should it be merged in here? --Nanite (talk) 07:15, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge in [[ascent of sap]]?