beta-Maltose is the metabolically active anomer of maltose during transitory starch degradation.

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Maltose is the major form of carbon exported from the chloroplast at night as a result of transitory starch breakdown. Maltose exists as an alpha- or beta-anomer. We developed an enzymatic technique for distinguishing between the two anomers of maltose and tested the accuracy and specificity of this technique using beta-maltose liberated from maltoheptose by beta-amylase. This technique was used to investigate...

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