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    Amyloplasts are a type of plastid, double-enveloped organelles in plant cells that are involved in various biological pathways. Amyloplasts are specifically...
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  • aggregates, originally named in the mistaken belief that they contained starch Amyloplast, non-pigmented organelles found in some plant cells Amyl acetate, used...
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    specialized for bulk storage of starch, lipid or protein and are then known as amyloplasts, elaioplasts, or proteinoplasts (also called aleuroplasts) respectively...
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    chloroplasts. Other plastids contain storage products such as starch (amyloplasts) or lipids (elaioplasts). Uniquely, streptophyte cells and those of the...
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    Microscopic view: potato starch (amyloplasts) in plant cell...
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    electron microscopes. Other subtypes of Leucoplasts include amyloplast, and elaioplasts. Amyloplasts help to store and synthesize starch molecules found in...
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    continues to guide growth and development along with phototropism. While amyloplasts continue to guide plants in the right direction, plant organs and function...
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    forming a complete waterproof layer. Some plants have a large number of amyloplasts (starch containing organelles) in their endodermal cells, in which case...
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    chloroplasts, and are much more common in other plastids like chromoplasts and amyloplasts in petals and roots, respectively. They may exist to increase the chloroplast's...
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  • grains, arise almost exclusively in plastids, especially leucoplasts and amyloplasts. Although proteins are the main component of living protoplasm, proteins...
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    coloration Anthocyanin: purple, red, blue, or black coloration Leucoplast Amyloplast Elaioplast Proteinoplast (aleuroplast) Whatley JM, Whatley FR (1987)....
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  • μύλος (múlos) amyloid, amyloidosis, amylolysis, amylopectin, amylophagia, amyloplast, amylose, amylum myo- muscle Greek μυς (mys) leiomyoma myri- countless...
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    starch, which is packed into semicrystalline granules called starch or amyloplasts. Toward the end of the growing season, starch accumulates in twigs of...
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    experiment (2008) utilized the EMCS to study lentil seedling growth and amyloplast movement on the calcium-dependent pathways. The results of this experiment...
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  • μύλος (múlos) amyloid, amyloidosis, amylolysis, amylopectin, amylophagia, amyloplast, amylose, amylum myo- muscle Greek μυς (mys) leiomyoma myri- countless...
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    under a microscope, Brown observed minute particles, now known to be amyloplasts (starch organelles) and spherosomes (lipid organelles), ejected from...
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    the process known as photosynthesis. Other types of plastids are the amyloplasts, specialized for starch storage, elaioplasts specialized for fat storage...
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    differentiate into even more specialized plastids, such as: the aleuroplasts; Amyloplasts: storing starch and detecting gravity—for maintaining geotropism. Elaioplasts:...
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    present everywhere else. The inner region contains cells with large amyloplasts supporting germination as well as the most interior cells dying to form...
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    II–III—Here the bacteria have entered the plant cells, which contain amyloplasts. They elongate and begin terminally differentiating into symbiotic, nitrogen-fixing...
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    being amylose. Plants store starch within specialized organelles called amyloplasts. To generate energy, the plant hydrolyzes the starch, releasing the glucose...
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    with the egg. Plastid Chloroplast and etioplast Chromoplast Leucoplast Amyloplast Proteinoplast Wise RR (2007). "The Diversity of Plastid Form and Function"...
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    experiment (2008) utilized the EMCS to study lentil seedling growth and amyloplast movement on the calcium-dependent pathways. The results of this experiment...
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    tissue helps the roots to perceive gravity. Within columella cells, the amyloplasts and Golgi apparatus organelles tend to fall to the bottom third of the...
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    may also contain etioplasts. Plastid Chloroplast Chromoplast Leucoplast Amyloplast Elaioplast Proteinoplast Gerontoplast Wise, Robert (2007). "The Diversity...
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    ABA is synthesized in almost all cells that contain chloroplasts or amyloplasts ABA can be catabolized to phaseic acid via CYP707A (a group of P450 enzymes)...
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    synthesis in the developing endosperm. This enzyme is located in the amyloplasts and is the major component of the starchbound protein in maize. Nelson...
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    gravisensing to direct growth. For example, depending on root orientation, amyloplasts will settle within a plant cell differently. These different settling...
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    to demonstrate the metamorphosis of chloroplasts (outward of cell) to amyloplasts (inward of cell) if studied with a microscope. Under its synonym Elatostema...
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    contain oblate particles about 1–5 μm in diameter, interpreted as putative amyloplasts. The exceptional preservation of Osmundastrum pulchellum has allowed...
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