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granum Bot.|ˈgrɑː-, ˈgreɪnəm|
Usually as pl. ˈgrana.
[a. G. granum (A. Meyer Das Chlorophyllkorn in chem. morphol. und biol. Beziehung (1883) ii. 24), a. L. grānum grain.]
Any of the discs which are arranged in stacks in the chloroplast, which are formed of membranes and in which the chlorophyll is incorporated.
1894S. H. Vines Student's Text-bk. Bot. I. i. 100 The chlorophyll appears to exist in an oily solution, and to be confined to the fibrillar portions of the plastid, in the form of droplets (grana). 1898H. C. Porter tr. Strasburger's Text-bk. Bot. i. i. 57 The fundamental substance of the chlorophyll bodies is itself colourless, but contains numerous coloured drops, which are termed Grana. These consist of an oleaginous substance, which holds various pigments in solution. 1966R. B. Park in Vernon & Seely Chlorophylls ix. 286 The chlorophyll fluorescence is seen to reside primarily in the grana stacks. 1967Kirk & Tilney-Bassett Plastids i. 30 Most of the thylakoids in a granum extend beyond the edge of the granum. |