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What is tonoplast ?


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Tonoplast:

  1. Tonoplast can be defined as a single membrane that bounds the vacuoles and separates them from the cytoplasm.
  2. In plants, tonoplasts facilitate uphill transport of many ions and other materials, making their concentration higher in vacuole than in the cytoplasm.

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