Each starch grain remained in alignment with the corresponding microscopic area of emulsion coated over it.
Because the job of bundle sheath chloroplasts is to carry out the Calvin cycle and make sugar, they often contain large starch grains.
For the past century, the dogma has been that falling starch grains inside plant cells told a plant which way was down.
The starch grains that float to the surface during the soaking process are also used in cooking.
Evidence of preserved starch grains on grinding stones suggests they were eaten in Europe 30,000 years ago.
The parenchyma cells are polygonally shaped and contain a large amount of starch grains.
In the potato there are groups of starch grains which lie within the cells.
It didn't take much detective work to determine that the starch grains were indeed from hot peppers.
Their life cycle takes place inside potato tubers where they eat starch grains.
Thus, dried starch grains make a fairly decent desiccating agent.