Starch metabolism in green plants

BUSI, M. V.; DIEGO FABIAN GOMEZ CASATI; MARTIN, M.; BARCHIESI, J; GRISOLÍA, M; HEDIN, N; CARRILLO J.B.

Polyssacharides

Springer

Lugar: Heidelberg; Año: 2015; p. 329 - 376

Starch is a substantial component of the human diet providing about 50 % of daily energy uptake, mostly throughunrefined cereals. Starch and sucrose are the primary products of photosynthesis. Starch represents the main plantstorage carbohydrate that provides energy during heterotrophic growth. Its synthesis and degradation have been studieddeeply, reaching a good level of knowledge of the metabolism as a whole. Not only the enzymes involved but also theintracellular localization of the reactions, its regulation, its dependence on light-dark cycle, its evolution from ancestralbacteria, and its correlation with parameters of agronomic interest have been studied. In this work we have attempted acomprehensive review of the starch metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana and other species of agronomic interest and themodular structures present in starch-related enzymes from Arabidopsis thaliana