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Amyloplasts (Starch-Containing Plastids)



a: Young amyloplasts (proplastids in an advanced developmental state) next to a nucleus (at the bottom of the picture) in a haustorial cell of dodder (Cuscuta odorata) (Ch. GLOCKMANN, R. KOLLMANN, 1990);




b: Amyloplasts (statholites) in a statocyst of the root cap of Vicia faba (R. KOLLMANN, 1979).



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