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What is floridean starch?


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Floridean starch:

  1. Floridean starch is a storage glucan found in glaucophytes and red algae that serves as the principal sink for fixed carbon from photosynthesis.
  2. Floridean starch is a major carbohydrate sink from photosynthesis.
  3. It is a type of food storage in certain algae.
  4. They are present as tiny granules in the cytoplasm of the cell, outside the chloroplast.
  5. They are found as a cap over pyrenoids.

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