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Plasmodesmata

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Plasmodesmata are channels through adjoining plant cell walls that connect neighboring cells' cytoplasm, letting materials pass directly between them.

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Water and nutrients absorbed by a root can move cell to cell through plasmodesmata on their way to the leaves.

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Plasmodesmata cross both the wall and the membrane — a wall alone would otherwise keep neighboring cells apart.