leucoplast
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leucoplast:
see amyloplastamyloplast, also called leucoplast, a nonpigmented organelle, or plastid, occurring in the cytoplasm of plant cells. Amyloplasts transform glucose, a simple sugar, into starch through the process of polymerization, and store starch grains within their stretched membranes.
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leucoplast
[′lü·kə‚plast] (botany)
A nonpigmented plastid; capable of developing into a chromoplast.
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