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0il bodies are lipid (mainly triacylglycerols) storage compartments that occur primarily in seeds and senescing leaves. Seed oil bodies develop from the endoplasmic reticulum in embryo cells during seed maturation and are degraded during seed germination and subsequent seedling growth.
What are Triacylglycerols and it's function?
- Triacylglycerols are the major oils used for energy and metabolic substrates during seedling growth.
- Oil bodies also function as subcellular factories that produce antifungal compounds in senescing leaves and perilesional leaf areas infected with fungi.
- The majority of plant lipids act as energy stores (e.g., triacylglycerols in seeds) or as plant membrane components (e.g., galactosyl glycerides in chloroplast membranes and phosphoglycerates in non-chloroplast membranes).
- Furthermore, surface lipids such as waxes and cutin provide an impervious barrier on the plant surface to reduce water loss and to provide protection against plant pathogens and toxins.
- Lipids are found in relatively small amounts in temperate grasses and generally decrease as the plant matures.
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