Elaioplasts are a type of leucoplast that is specialized for the storage of lipids in plants. Elaioplasts house oil body deposits as rounded plastoglobuli, which are essentially fat droplets. Being a variety of leucoplast, elaioplasts are non-pigmented and fall into the much broader organelle category of plant plastids. A different example of a st...
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Unpigmented type of plastid modified as an oil storage organelle. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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Unpigmented type of plastid modified as an oil-storage organelle.
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