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    Elaioplasts are one of the three possible forms of leucoplasts, sometimes broadly referred to as such. The main function of elaioplasts are synthesis...
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    storage of starch, lipid or protein and are then known as amyloplasts, elaioplasts, or proteinoplasts (also called aleuroplasts) respectively. However,...
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    plastids contain storage products such as starch (amyloplasts) or lipids (elaioplasts). Uniquely, streptophyte cells and those of the green algal order Trentepohliales...
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    include amyloplast, and elaioplasts. Amyloplasts help to store and synthesize starch molecules found in plants, while elaioplasts synthesize and store lipids...
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    Anthocyanin: purple, red, blue, or black coloration Leucoplast Amyloplast Elaioplast Proteinoplast (aleuroplast) Whatley JM, Whatley FR (1987). "When is a...
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    contain etioplasts. Plastid Chloroplast Chromoplast Leucoplast Amyloplast Elaioplast Proteinoplast Gerontoplast Wise, Robert (2007). "The Diversity of Plastid...
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    types of plastids are the amyloplasts, specialized for starch storage, elaioplasts specialized for fat storage, and chromoplasts specialized for synthesis...
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    Amyloplasts: storing starch and detecting gravity—for maintaining geotropism. Elaioplasts: storing fats. Proteinoplasts: storing and modifying protein. or Tannosomes:...
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  • Polysphondylium, 1929 The nature and functions of plastids, especially elaioplasts, 1929 Organization and light relations in Polysphondylium, 1932 Plant...
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