With the rising trend of incidence of cancers, effective therapies are urgently needed to
control human malignancies. However, the chemotherapy drugs currently on the market …

Starch commands a central role in the carbon budget of the majority of plants on earth, and
its biological role changes during development and in response to the environment …

Background The discovery of nutritious dietary supplements and side effect-free
therapeutics are a priority in the current scenario of increasing cancer cases. Natural …

Starch is an important food product and a versatile biomaterial used world-wide for different
purposes in many industrial sectors including foods, health, textile, chemical and …

Glycogen is a branched polymer of glucose that acts as a store of energy in times of
nutritional sufficiency for utilization in times of need. Its metabolism has been the subject of …

Much has been written over many decades about the structure and properties of starch. As
technology develops, the capacity to understand in more depth the structure of starch …

Over two decades have passed since the fifth edition of Phosphorus: Chemistry,
Biochemistry and Technology. Major advances in chemistry, materials science, electronics …

Starch represents one of the major agricultural products in the world and is used in a wide
range of food and non-food applications. It is the main component of rice grains, influencing …

Progress in understanding starch biosynthesis, and the isolation of many of the genes
involved in this process, has enabled the genetic modification of crops in a rational manner …

Recent research reveals that starch degradation in Arabidopsis leaves at night is
significantly different from the “textbook” version of this process. Although parts of the …