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A certain tissue in a green plant somehow gets blocked and the leaves wilted. which was the tissue that got blocked?

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the tissue that got blocked would be xylem. it is through the xylem that water and minerals absorbed by the roots from the soil and transported to the leaves and other parts of the plants. so, if xylem is blocked, then the leaves will not get the nourishment and will get wilted.

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