Etioplasts are an intermediate type of plastid that develop from proplastids that have not been exposed to light, and convert into chloroplasts upon exposure...

periphery, as observed for proplastids in the root meristem. Pre-granal etioplasts, which are chloroplasts that have not matured but can be chloroplasts...

under these conditions. They are also common in etioplasts, but decrease in number as the etioplasts mature into chloroplasts. Plastoglobuli contain both...

which causes the oranges to turn back to green. Plastid Chloroplast and etioplast Chromoplast Lycopene: red color of tomato Capasanthin: red color of peppers...

differentiated into specialized organelles such as chloroplasts, chromoplasts, etioplasts, and leucoplasts, collectively known as plastids. Sericytochromatia, the...

to expand. Chloroplasts that have not been exposed to light are called etioplasts (see also plastids). De-etiolation is a series of physiological and biochemical...

variants: Chloroplasts: typically green plastids that perform photosynthesis. Etioplasts: precursors of chloroplasts. Chromoplasts: coloured plastids that synthesize...

separated from sperm cells as they fuse with the egg. Plastid Chloroplast and etioplast Chromoplast Leucoplast Amyloplast Proteinoplast Wise RR (2007). "The Diversity...

the plant embryo and in the absence of light, proplastids develop into etioplasts that contain semicrystalline membrane structures called prolamellar bodies...

during the light-induced development from proplastid to chloroplast or etioplast to chloroplast. At these times, the synthesis of chlorophyll and the biogenesis...