chrysolaminarin
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chrysolaminarin (uncountable)
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(biochemistry) A storage polysaccharide typically found in photosynthetic heterokonts.
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Their chloroplasts lack a nucleomorph, their thylakoids are in stacks of three, and they synthesize chrysolaminarin sugar, which they store completely outside of the chloroplast, in the cytoplasm of the haptophyte.
Like haptophytes, heterokontophytes store sugar in chrysolaminarin granules in the cytoplasm.