oil body

These oil body clusters appear as dark spots in the leaves when the plant is held up to the light.

An oil body is a lipid-containing structure found in plant cells.

The slippery oiled bodies also made them hard to catch hold of.

Recent work, using updated techniques, has given a detailed molecular profile of oil bodies.

Some species of vascular plants also contain intracellular structures called oil bodies.

Oil Bodies are the organelle that has evolved to hold triglycerides in plant cells.

Women with oiled bodies served fruits on silver trays.

Next he ordered a wrestler, a huge brute of a man with shaved head and oiled body.

Their oiled bodies glinted and writhed in the light.

Oleosin - a major oil body protein.

Maurice Moloney of genetically introducing proteins to seed oil bodies and "growing" them.

Frightened for the small Negro whose stif oiled body was being flung into air with such abandon.

The size, shape, color, and number of oil bodies per cell is characteristic of certain species and may be used to identify these.

She says the hotel's owner persistently knocked on her door in the middle of the night offering her a "free oil body massage."

These oil bodies occur largely in seeds but also occur in other plant parts, including leaves.

Oleosins have been found on oil bodies of seeds, tapetum cells, and pollen but not fruits.

Elaioplasts house oil body deposits as rounded plastoglobuli, which are essentially fat droplets.

The leaf scales are dimorphic and contain scattered oil cells, with a single oil body per cell.

Oil bodies are small and unsegmented.

The smell of Tarsu was strong, the oiled body pungent and close below Blade.

Microscopic views of liverwort cells, showing a variety of oil body shapes and arrangements.