Recent developments in methods and instrumentation have contributed to major advances
in our understanding of the fine structure of amylose and amylopectin. The structure of the …

Plants must achieve a balance between carbon assimilation, storage and growth, but little is
known about how this is achieved. We describe evidence for the existence of regulatory …

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 …

The phosphorylation of amylopectin by the glucan, water dikinase (GWD; EC 2.7. 9.4) is an
essential step within starch metabolism. This is indicated by the starch excess phenotype of …

An Arabidopsis thaliana gene encoding a homologue of the potato α‐glucan, water dikinase
GWD, previously known as R1, was identified by screening the Arabidopsis genome and …

Starch granule types from a variety of botanical sources were selected to represent
differences in crystalline polymorph, amylose and phosphate content, and amylopectin …

Carbohydrates constitute the most abundant group of organic compounds found in nature.
Oxygenic photosynthesis, the process energizing carbon dioxide fixation in the biosphere, is …

Starch is the major component for providing energy storage for plants. However in the cell,
starch occurs in semicrystalline granules of various sizes depending on the plant species …

Starch phosphate content (SPC) is an important structural parameter affecting the
functionality of tuber starches, but how different phosphate groups affect starch structures is …

Starch is the most abundant storage carbohydrate produced in plants. The initiation of
transitory starch synthesis and degradation in plastids depends mainly on diurnal cycle, post …