Where would one find the greatest concentration of starch in a dandelion? Explain?

Question

Where would one find the greatest concentration of starch in a dandelion? Explain?

Answer 1

In dandelion there is to find  a very small content of starch only, because Taraxacum officinale uses inulin, another sort of polysaccharide as a means of storing energy in its roots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inulin

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/...

The starch is to find in leaves as product of photosynthesis and used as source of energy in darkness.

Leaf starch levels typically increase during the day and decrease at night

PS

1g of dandelion seeds are 1200-1600 single seeds.

They have to be airy and tiny, because they are distributed by wind. Thus there is no room for too much starch.

Answer 2

I would expect to find the most starch in the seeds which contain endosperm, food for the developing embryo most commonly in the from of starch.