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A sensitive method for confocal fluorescence microscopic visualization of starch granules in iodine stained samples.
Plant signaling & behavior - 1 Sept 2012
Ovecka Miroslav, Bahaji Abdellatif, Muñoz Francisco José, Almagro Goizeder, Ezquer Ignacio, Baroja-Fernández Edurne, Li Jun, Pozueta-Romero Javier
Abstract excerpt
Synthesized by glycogen synthase and starch synthases (SS) using ADP-glucose as the sugar donor molecule, glycogen and starch accumulate as predominant storage carbohydrates in most bacteria and plants, respectively. We have recently shown that the so-called "starch-less" Arabidopsis thaliana adg1-1 and aps1 mutants impaired in ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase do indeed accumulate low starch content in normal growth...
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