#amilo

• Amyloplastic — Pertaining to amyloplasts or relating to them; concerning the activity of forming and storing starch within specialized plant cell organelles. It is used to describe metabolic processes, membrane structures, or cytoplasmic changes correlated with the physiology of these specialized plastids.
• Amylosphere — A macromolecular formation or spherical cytoplasmic inclusion of a polysaccharide nature, developing inside certain plant cells or lower organisms. It represents a dense structural agglomeration resembling a microscopic starch grain, serving as a focused storage area for reserve carbohydrates.
• Amylose — A linear polysaccharide composed of hundreds to thousands of glucose units joined exclusively by alpha-one-four-glucosidic bonds, which constitutes, alongside amylose, the structural component of starch (representing approximately twenty to thirty percent of its mass). It has a specific helical structure, is soluble in hot water, and yields a characteristic intense blue coloration in the presence of iodine, playing a key role in the textural properties of starch gels.