The orange color is often added artificially light yellow-orange is the natural color created by the actual chromoplasts.
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Other plastid types, such as the leucoplast and the chromoplast, contain little chlorophyll and do not carry out photosynthesis.
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The main evolutionary purpose of chromoplasts is probably to attract pollinators or eaters of colored fruits, which help disperse seeds.
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One subtle difference in DNA was found after a liquid chromatography analysis of tomato chromoplasts was conducted, revealing increased cytosine methylation.
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The cytoplasm does not contain differentiated plastids ( chloroplasts or chromoplasts ), although they are present in rudimentary form ( proplastids ).
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When ripe, the flavedo cells contain carotenoids ( mostly xanthophyll ) inside chromoplasts, which, in a previous developmental stage, contained chlorophyll.
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In the chromoplasts of tomato flowers, carotenoid synthesis is regulated by the genes Psyl, Pds, Lcy-b, and Cyc-b.
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"' Chromoplasts "'are plastids, heterogeneous organelles responsible for pigment "'synthesis and storage "'in specific photosynthetic eukaryotes.
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In this case, relatively little new carotenoid is produced the change in plastid pigments associated with leaf senescence is somewhat different from the active conversion to chromoplasts observed in fruit and flowers.
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While it was originally thought that chromoplasts were the final stage of plastid development, in 1966 it was proved that chromoplasts can revert to chloroplasts, which causes the oranges to turn back to green.
