Definition of Leucoplasts. Meaning of Leucoplasts. Synonyms of Leucoplasts

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Definition of Leucoplasts

Leucoplast
Leucoplast Leu"co*plast (l[=u]"k[-o]*pl[a^]st), Leucoplastid Leu`co*plas"tid (-pl[a^]s"t[i^]d), n. [Leuco- + Gr. pla`ssein to mold.] (Bot.) One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form.

Meaning of Leucoplasts from wikipedia

- considered leucoplasts. After several minutes exposure to light, etioplasts transform into functioning chloroplasts and cease being leucoplasts. Amyloplasts...
- photosynthetic apparatus during plant senescence. Leucoplasts: colourless plastids that synthesize monoterpenes. Leucoplasts differentiate into even more specialized...
- It is thought that like all other plastids including chloroplasts and leucoplasts they are descended from symbiotic prokaryotes. Chromoplasts are found...
- plant.  Leucoplasts are a colorless type of plastid which means that no photosynthesis occurs here. The colorless pigmentation of the leucoplast is due...
- Elaioplasts are one of the three possible forms of leucoplasts, sometimes broadly referred to as such. The main function of elaioplasts are synthesis...
- from potatoes. The cells of the root tubers of the potato plant contain leucoplasts (starch grains). To extract the starch, the potatoes are crushed, and...
- specialized organelles such as chloroplasts, chromoplasts, etioplasts, and leucoplasts, collectively known as plastids. Sericytochromatia, the proposed name...
- enzyme parti****tes in monoterpenoid biosynthesis and is localized to Leucoplasts of oil gland secretory cells. Turner G, Gershenzon J, Nielson EE, Froehlich...
- as starch grains, arise almost exclusively in plastids, especially leucoplasts and amyloplasts. Although proteins are the main component of living protoplasm...
- a high concentration of chlorophyll. Other plastid types, such as the leucoplast and the chromoplast, contain little chlorophyll and do not carry out photosynthesis...