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How Sap Moves in Trees

It is lifted up to the leaves and flows down with the products of photosynthesis. It can now be delicately sampled by tapping the tiny stylets that a feeding aphid pushes into a single cell

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 208 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “How Sap Moves in Trees” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 208 No. 3 (), p. 132
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0363-132