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- Title
Understanding storage starch biosynthesis in plants: a means to quality improvement.
- Authors
Tetlow, Ian J.
- Abstract
The many varied uses of starch in food and industrial applications often requires an understanding of its physicochemical properties and the detailed variations in granule structure that underpin these properties. The ability to manipulate storage starch structures depends on understanding the biosynthetic pathway, and in particular, how the many components of the pathway are coordinated and regulated. This article presents a current overview of starch structure and the known enzymes involved in the synthesis of the granule, with an emphasis on how current knowledge on the regulation of the pathway in cereals and other crops may be applied to the production of different functional starches.
- Subjects
STARCH synthesis; BIOSYNTHESIS; METABOLISM; ARABIDOPSIS; AMYLOPLASTS; PHOSPHORYLATION; CHLAMYDOMONAS reinhardtii; PULLULANASE
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Botany, 2006, Vol 84, Issue 8, p1167
- ISSN
0008-4026
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/B06-089