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amyloplast

Meaning of "amyloplast" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF AMYLOPLAST

ˈæmɪləʊˌplæst


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AMYLOPLAST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Amyloplast is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AMYLOPLAST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Amyloplast

Amyloplasts are non-pigmented organelles found in some plant cells. They are responsible for the synthesis and storage of starch granules, through the polymerization of glucose. Amyloplasts also convert this starch back into sugar when the plant needs energy. Large numbers of amyloplasts can be found in fruit and in underground storage tissues of some plants, such as in potato tubers. Amyloplasts are plastids, specifically leucoplasts. Plastids are a specialized class of cellular organelles that carry their own genome and are believed to be descendants of cyanobacteria which formed a symbiotic relationship with the eukaryotic cell. Starch synthesis and storage also takes place in chloroplasts, a type of pigmented plastid involved in photosynthesis. Amyloplasts and chloroplasts are closely related, and amyloplasts can turn into chloroplasts; this is for instance observed when potato tubers are exposed to light and turn green.

Definition of amyloplast in the English dictionary

The definition of amyloplast in the dictionary is a non-pigmented granule in a plant cell which stores amylopectin.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AMYLOPLAST

apoplast · bioplast · blepharoplast · chloroplast · chromoplast · clast · fibroblast · iconoclast · kinetoplast · leucoplast · neuroblast · osteoblast · osteoclast · periplast · phragmoplast · protoplast · spheroplast · symplast · tonoplast · trophoblast

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AMYLOPLAST

amyl · amyl acetate · amyl alcohol · amyl nitrite · amylaceous · amylase · amylene · amylic · amylogen · amyloid · amyloidal · amyloidosis · amylolysis · amylolytic · amylopectin · amylopsin · amylose · amylum · amyotonia · amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

WORDS THAT END LIKE AMYLOPLAST

at last · at long last · ballast · blast · bomb blast · breathe one´s last · cytoplast · Elastoplast · first and last · from first to last · full blast · last · lipidoplast · lipoplast · myoblast · oblast · outlast · sandblast · the last · trade-last

Synonyms and antonyms of amyloplast in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «amyloplast» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AMYLOPLAST

Find out the translation of amyloplast to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of amyloplast from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «amyloplast» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

淀粉体
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

amiloplasto
570 millions of speakers
en

English

amyloplast
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

amyloplast
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بانية النشا
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

амилопласт
278 millions of speakers
pt

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amiloplasto
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

amyloplast
260 millions of speakers
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Translator English - French

amyloplaste
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Amyloplast
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Amyloplast
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

アミロプラスト
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

amyloplast
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Amyloplast
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

amyloplast
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

அமைலோ உருவம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Amyloplast
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

amiloplast
70 millions of speakers
it

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amyloplast
65 millions of speakers
pl

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amyloplastu
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

амілопласти
40 millions of speakers
ro

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amiloplast
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αμυλοπλαστικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

amyloplast
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

amyloplasten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

amyloplast
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of amyloplast

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AMYLOPLAST»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about amyloplast

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMYLOPLAST»

Discover the use of amyloplast in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to amyloplast and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Structure and Function of Plastids
We present the various models and corresponding evidence regarding how the mechanical stimulus of amyloplast sedimentation leads to plant gravity perception. In addition, an overview is provided of some of the types of research tools that ...
Robert R. Wise, J. Kenneth Hoober, 2007
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Functional Foods and Biotechnology
A high concentration of Pi in cytoplasm is believed to mobilize carbon from the amyloplast to the cytoplasm, while cytoplasmic Pi participates with G-11-P in a reversible exchange across the amyloplast membrane. Increased Pi concentration in ...
Kalidas Shetty, Gopinadhan Paliyath, Anthony Pometto, 2006
3
Photoassimilate Distribution Plants and Crops Source-Sink ...
Storage tissues, such as the endosperm of wheat, barley, and maize, and potato tubers, have simple amyloplasts (a single starch granule per amyloplast), whereas others, such as roots, stems, and embryos, and endosperm of rice and oat, ...
Zamski, 1996
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Food Biotechnology, Second Edition
A high concentration of Pi in cytoplasm is believed to mobilize carbon from the amyloplast to the cytoplasm, while cytoplasmic Pi participates with G-l-P in a reversible exchange across the amyloplast membrane. Increased Pi concentration in ...
Anthony Pometto, Kalidas Shetty, Gopinadhan Paliyath, 2005
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Starch: Chemistry and Technology
General methods for amyloplast isolation were recently reviewed.199,221 The preferred metabolite taken up by isolated amyloplasts depended on the tissue from which the amyloplasts were isolated. For example, Tyson and ap Rees222 and ...
James N. BeMiller, Roy L. Whistler, 2009
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Seed Development and Germination
Several studies proposed that triose-P is transported via a phosphate translocator into the amyloplast, as in chloroplasts (Liu and Shannon, I98I; MacDonald and apRees, l983; Echeverria et al., l 985, l988; Joumet and Douce. l985; Mohabir ...
Jaime Kigel, 1995
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Plant Cell Biology: Structure and Function
This plate shows a form of plastid, the amyloplast, which specialises in storage of starch manufactured from translocated sucrose, and is found in tissues that store food reserves (see also Plate 14a). They lay down such large starch grains that ...
Brian E. S. Gunning, Martin W. Steer, 1996
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Plant Proteomics
envelope during centrifugation, resulting in loss of stromal contents. As with any method of subcellular fractionation, there are questions of purity. Amyloplast preparations may be contaminated with other membrane-bound cellular components ...
Ganesh K. Agrawal, Randeep Rakwal, 2008
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An Introduction to Plant Cell Development
This illustrates a double function of the amyloplast at different stages in the life of the cell in which it appears. Amyloplasts may be formed directly from pro- plastids by the deposition of starch within vesicles derived from the inner of the two ...
Jeremy Burgess, 1985
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Tobacco BY-2 Cells
cells that have a simple supracellular structure, which makes this system useful for analyzing the basic mechanisms involved in amyloplast formation. Several lines of evidence suggest that the behavior of BY-2 cells under amyloplast- inducing ...
Toshiyuki Nagata, Seiichiro Hasezawa, Dirk Inzé, 2004

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AMYLOPLAST»

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Plants Use Sixth Sense for Growth on Space Station
Scientists hypothesise that the process in which amyloplast - particles within the plant cell that store and synthesise starch for energy ... «The New Indian Express, Apr 15»
2
Roots Down, Shoots Up. But How Does a Plant Know Which is Which?
The more the amyloplast pushes down on the membrane, the more proteins come into contact with receptors, and the stronger the gravity ... «Scientific American, Apr 13»
REFERENCE
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