Starch granules: structure and biosynthesis
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The emphasis of this review is on starch structure and its biosynthesis. Improvements in understanding have been brought about during the last decade through the development of new physicochemical and biological techniques, leading to real scientific progress. All this literature needs to be kept inside the general literature about biopolymers, despite some confusing results or discrepancies arising from the biological variability of starch. However, a coherent picture of starch over all the different structural levels can be presented, in order to obtain some generalizations about its structure. In this review we will focus first on our present understanding of the structures of amylose and amylopectin and their organization within the granule, and we will then give insights on the biosynthetic mechanisms explaining the biogenesis of starch in plants.
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Starch digestibility is influenced by the ratio of amylose to amylopectin.
“At the molecular level, the ratio of amylose to amylopectin influences starch digestibility.”
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- Authors
- Buléon, A., Colonna, P., Planchot, V., & Ball, S.
- Affiliations
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Buléon, A.
- Venue
- International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-08
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 85-112
- ISSN
- 0141-8130 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1980234998
- Cited by
- 2,091
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 63 · 2025: 71 · 2024: 72 · 2023: 88 · 2022: 92 · 2021: 140 · 2020: 103 · 2019: 114 · 2018: 103 · 2017: 118 · 2016: 114 · 2015: 116 · 2014: 103 · 2013: 114 · 2012: 83
- FWCI
- 4.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hal.inrae.fr
- Licence
- public-domain
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Food composition and properties
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Rheumatology › Glycogen Storage Diseases and Myoclonus
- Keywords
- starch granules, starch biosynthesis, amylose, amylopectin, granule structure, plant starch, biopolymers, structural levels
- MeSH terms
- Carbohydrate Conformation, Crystallization, Genetic Engineering, Models, Molecular, Plants, Starch
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