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Definition of Leucoplasts
1. leucoplast [n] - See also: leucoplast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leucoplasts
Literary usage of Leucoplasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger, William Hillhouse (1900)
"leucoplasts of Hut/its acid, and preserved in alcohol. ,rom ... In uninjured
cells the leucoplasts appear as aggregations of protoplasm at the hinder end of ..."
2. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"It is not very easy to see the leucoplasts in the potato ; they can be detected,
... is not caused by leucoplasts but by the general protoplasm of the cell. ..."
3. An Introduction to Cytology by Lester Whyland Sharp (1921)
"... are essential constituents of the cytoplasm, and that they develop into
chloroplasts and leucoplasts in the cells of the stem and root respectively. ..."
4. Practical Physiology of Plants by Francis Darwin, Edward Hamilton Acton (1909)
"The leucoplasts in the rhizome of Iris germanica are given in his fig. 30.
SECTION B. The Evolution of Oxygen. (41) Bubbles of gas given off. ..."
5. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1916)
"They are, however, really the same thing under different guises and performing
different functions, for the leucoplasts may become chloroplasts and the ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"The remaining plastids, leucoplasts, are devoid of color and are found in ...
The leucoplasts may become green upon exposure to light thus changing into ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"They arise cither from the leucoplasts or chloroplasts. The fundamental substance
or stroma is colourless and homogeneous. The colour is due to the presence ..."
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