Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Cecropia peltata | - |
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Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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leaf | - |
Cecropia peltata | - |
Muellerian body | on trichilia at the base of the petioles | Cecropia peltata | - |
petiole | - |
Cecropia peltata | - |
trichilium | - |
Cecropia peltata | - |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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metabolism | tropical tree Cecropia peltata is a rare example of an organism able to make either polymer type, glycogen and starch. Glycogen accumulates to very high levels in specialized myrmecophytic structures (Müllerian bodies), whereas starch accumulates in leaves. Compared with polymers comprising leaf starch, glycogen is more highly branched and has shorter branches, factors that prevent crystallization and explain its solubility | Cecropia peltata |