#amiloplast

• Amylogenic — Generating or producing starch; a substance, tissue, or cellular plastid (such as an amyloplast) directly involved in the biosynthesis of storage polysaccharides. As a noun, it can historically or contextually refer to the soluble fraction or macromolecular precursor from which starch granules are synthesized in plant cells.
• Amylogenesis — The biochemical process of formation and biosynthesis of starch within plant cells. Amylogenesis takes place inside the amyloplasts through the successive polymerization of glucose molecules, being an essential structural metabolic stage for storing energy derived from photosynthesis.
• Amyloplast — A specialized cell organelle, a type of leucoplast, found in plant cells (especially in tubers, roots, stems, and seed endosperm), lacking photosynthetic pigments, and serving the structural role of synthesizing and storing starch granules as a reserve substance. Additionally, certain modified amyloplasts, called statoliths, function as gravity sensors in root cap cells, coordinating plant geotropism.
• 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.