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A gerontoplast is a plastid that develops from a chloroplast during the senescing of plant foliage.[1] Gerontoplast development is generally seen to be the process of grana being unstacked, loss of thylakoid membranes, and large accumulation of plastoglobuli.
^Wise, Robert (13 September 2007). The Structure and Function of Plastids. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 11. ISBN 9781402065705.
A gerontoplast is a plastid that develops from a chloroplast during the senescing of plant foliage. Gerontoplast development is generally seen to be the...
chloroplast is under oxidative stress, or when it ages and transitions into a gerontoplast. Plastoglobuli also exhibit a greater size variation under these conditions...
Chloroplast Chromoplast Leucoplast Amyloplast Elaioplast Proteinoplast Gerontoplast Wise, Robert (2007). "The Diversity of Plastid Form and Function". The...
Chromoplasts: coloured plastids that synthesize and store pigments. Gerontoplasts: plastids that control the dismantling of the photosynthetic apparatus...
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