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What process you follow in your laboratory to study presence of starch in leaves? (AS3)

Starch is a non- reducing sugar synthesized and stored in amylo-plasts in plants. The starch in the leaves on reaction with iodine solution (orange-brown) forms blue-black colored solution. The blue- black color is formed by entrapment of tri-iodide in starch.


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