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 …

Research in the past decade has uncovered new and surprising information about the
pathways of starch synthesis and degradation. This includes the discovery of previously …

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 …

Historically speaking, Arabidopsis was not the plant of choice for investigating
photosynthesis, with physiologists and biochemists favouring other species such as …

The plant cell-wall matrix is equipped with more than 20 glycosylhydrolase activities,
including both glycosidases and glycanases (exo-and endo-hydrolases, respectively), which …

The year 2024 marks 70 years since the general outline of the carbon pathway in
photosynthesis was published. Although several alternative pathways are now known, it is …

Many plants accumulate substantial starch reserves in their leaves during the day and
remobilize them at night to provide carbon and energy for maintenance and growth. In this …

Arabidopsis thaliana mutants impaired in starch biosynthesis due to defects in either ADP
glucose pyrophosphorylase (adg1‐1), plastidic phosphoglucose mutase (pgm) or a new …

Transitory starch and vacuolar sugars function as highly dynamic pools of instantly
accessible metabolites in plant leaf cells. Their metabolic regulation is critical for plant …

The initiation of starch granule formation and the mechanism controlling the number of
granules per plastid have been some of the most elusive aspects of starch metabolism. This …