Where Is the Starch in Algae Located

These starches are stored outside the chloroplast but within the surrounding membranes of the chloroplast endoplasmic recticulum. Most Dinophyceae store starch outside the chloroplast, often as a cap over a bulging pyrenoid.

What is the site of synthesis and storage of starch in algae?

Most notably, in green plants starch is synthesized in the plastid compartment, whereas in red algae and in glaucophytes its synthesis occurs in the cytosol.

In which algae reserve food is in the form of Floridean starch?

Floridean starch is a type of a storage glucan found in glaucophytes and in red algae (also known as rhodophytes), in which it is usually the primary sink for fixed carbon from photosynthesis.