Carbs are moved in corn plant

​Vascular systems of corn plants include xylem cells that essentially become small tubes allowing the movement of water mostly by then tendency of water molecules to stick together (cohesion). As a molecule is removed from the leaf thru a stomate, one is pulled up from the root.  Movement of carbohydrates from the source of photosynthesis in leaves to the various sinks in all living tissues of the plant is multidirectional and complex.  Glucose, the immediate product of photosynthesis, is transformed into more complex sugar molecules such as sucrose when it is moved.
 
Movement carbs between cells can be simple diffusion through those small ‘holes’ in cell walls, the plasmadesmata, as the molecules move from a high concentration to a low concentration.  It is a little more complicated with travel through membranes by osmosis, but the basic principle is the same.  Water is involved because It is the solvent of the sugar.  Greater concentration of water equals less concentration of sugar. Water molecules are also affected by the principles of movement from high to low concentration, setting up dynamics for what is called turgor pressure within each plant tissue.
 
As the sucrose molecules move into a ‘sink’ such as the newly formed kernels, they are transformed into more complex molecules such as starch and thus maintains the osmotic pressure for more movement of sucrose into the kernels. Other sinks, such as biologically active tissue of all living plant cells, consume the sucrose in cellular respiration and formation of essential amino acids and cell structures.  These various sinks are not all in the same direction from the carbohydrate sources where the photosynthesis occurred and consequently flow among phloem cells may not be in the same direction.
 
Whereas water movement in xylem tissue of the vascular bundles of a corn plant is mostly upwards from the roots, movement of the products of photosynthesis is affected by concentrations of various sugars in the sinks, allowing bi-directional flows.