In 1854, Julius von Sachs stated that generally, plants store glucose in the form of

Julius von Sachs, a German botanist and plant physiologist. In 1854, he stated that generally, plants store glucose in the form of starch.

Starch is a complex carbohydrate composed of glucose molecules linked together in a chain. It serves as the primary storage form of energy in plants. During photosynthesis, when plants produce glucose using carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight, they convert the excess glucose into starch.