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Chromoplast
Pigment-bearing organelle in plant cells / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chromoplasts are plastids, heterogeneous organelles responsible for pigment synthesis and storage in specific photosynthetic eukaryotes.[1] It is thought (according to symbiogenesis) that like all other plastids including chloroplasts and leucoplasts they are descended from symbiotic prokaryotes.[2]
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