Cut plants are allowed to wilt, or become flaccid, before removal from the field, to prevent injury to the turgid leaves.
It is needed for photosynthesis and keeping the cells turgid.
In addition to its usefulness in maintaining a turgid state of the young cells without which growth cannot proceed, water is itself a plant food-material and as absorbed from the soil contains dissolved in it all the mineral food constituents needed by plants for healthy nutrition.
When I skim-read his somewhat turgid and self-centred biography of his father I thought that the old legal eagle must have been pretty unpleasant.
Clement professed to despite rhetoric, but was himself a rhetorician, and his style is turgid, involved and difficult.