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Definition of Amyloplasts
1. amyloplast [n] - See also: amyloplast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amyloplasts
Literary usage of Amyloplasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Intracellular Pangenesis: Including a Paper on Fertilization and Hybridization by Hugo de Vries (1910)
"In other words, we must regard the amyloplasts, although they are generally the
... And, since generally the amyloplasts occur in young cells and their ..."
2. Belladonna: A Study of Its History, Action and Uses in Medicine by Henry Kraemer, Fred Barnett Kilmer, Johnson and Johnson, Inc (1894)
"It is this, the reserve starch, which forms the conspicuous grains that are the
subject of our present study. These are formed by amyloplasts, partly at ..."
3. The Cell; Outlines of General Anatomy and Physiology: Outlines of General by Oscar Hertwig, Henry Johnstone Campbell (1895)
"In such a case the amyloplasts turn green, increase in size, and part with their
starch granules, which become dissolved. In addition, chlorophyll granules ..."
4. Histology of Medicinal Plants by William Mansfield (1916)
"The sugar not utilized in cell metabolism is stored away in the form of reserve
starch or starch grains by colorless plastids or amyloplasts. ..."
5. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"When the grains are formed in the FIG. 26 (after Schimper). Group of amyloplasts,
each bearing a starch-grain, collected round the nucleus in a cell of the ..."
6. The Quantitative Method in Biology by Julius MacLeod (1919)
"The members (cells) of this society (individual x) which are near the surface
are green because their so-called amyloplasts are impregnated ..."
7. The evolution of plant life, lower forms by George Massee (1891)
"In the internal dark parts of plants starch is formed by amyloplasts. These bodies
closely resemble chromoplasts, in fact the conversion of the former into ..."
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