Plant scientists have discovered a specific protein that significantly influences the formation of starch in plant cells. The findings may be useful in the food and packaging industries, they say.
THE starch laid down in all maize kernels contains both amylose and amylopectin, except in the case of ‘waxy maize’ the starch of which contains no amylose or at most an amount too small for detection ...
Photosynthetic starch formation in leaf discs of spinach beet and related species can be increased more than ten fold by the presence of exogenous mannose at 10-2 M. In these species, carbon from ...
The Plant Cell, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan., 1994), pp. 43-52 (10 pages) The synthesis of amylose in amyloplasts is catalyzed by granule-bound starch synthase (GBSS). GBSS gene expression was inhibited via ...
Starch is only produced by plants and algae. Now, it can also be produced by yeast - or, at any rate, by the yeasts in the labs of the group led by Samuel Zeeman, Professor of Plant Biochemistry at ...
Starch is only produced by plants and algae. Now, it can also be produced by yeast - or, at any rate, by the yeasts in labs, report scientists. The researchers have succeeded in implanting yeast with ...
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