Stored starch generally consists of two d-glucose homopolymers, the linear polymer
amylose and a highly branched glucan amylopectin that connects linear chains …

Plants, green algae, and cyanobacteria synthesize storage polysaccharides by a similar
ADPglucose-based pathway. Plant starch metabolism can be distinguished from that of …

Phosphate (Pi) is essential to plant growth and crop yield. However, it remains unknown
how Pi homeostasis is maintained during cereal grain filling. Here, we identified a rice grain …

Starch is the major non-structural carbohydrate in plants. It serves as an important store of
carbon that fuels plant metabolism and growth when they are unable to photosynthesise …

Still widely used as gene markers, isozymes detected by zymogram techniques have proven
valuable in a range of other biological applications over the last few years. Along with these …

Plant starch granules provide the largest percentage of calories in the human diet. Starch
consists almost entirely of the Glc homopolymers amylopectin and amylose. Amylopectin is …

Abstract Starch synthase IIIa (SSIIIa)-deficient rice (Oryza sativa) mutants were generated
using retrotransposon insertion and chemical mutagenesis. The lowest migrating SS activity …

The present investigation revealed that the alk and gel (t) genes, which cause the
differences between a japonica rice variety Nipponbare and an indica rice variety Kasalath …

Four starch synthase I (SSI)-deficient rice (Oryza sativa) mutant lines were generated using
retrotransposon Tos17 insertion. The mutants exhibited different levels of SSI activities and …

Starch is a primary product of photosynthesis in leaves. In most plants, a large fraction of the
carbon assimilated during the day is stored transiently in the chloroplast as starch for use …