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Give details of symplast route of water movement.

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The symplast(Greek,sym=within:plast=cell)consists of the entire mass of cytosol of all living ells in a plant,as well as the plasmodesmata,the cytoplasmic channel that interconnects them.
In the symplastic route ,water has to cross plasma membrane to enter the cytoplasm of outer root cell,then it will move within adjoinig cytoplasm through plasmodesmata around the vacuoles without the necessity to cross more membrane ,till it reaches xylem.
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