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What is a granum?

What is a granum? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (biology) a stacklike structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis
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The internal membranes are shaped like disks and are often stacked together, forming a granum.
Those appressed to another thylakoid in a stack called a granum are "appressed" or "agranal" thylakoids.
The Spanish name grana, confounded with granum, may have given rise to this contest.
The chloroplasts of some plants show the invagination of the inner membrane into granum particularly in Sorghum, maize and sugarcane.
The number of thylakoids per granum is influenced greatly by the irradiation intensity during development.

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