In human digestive system: Carbohydrates Chief among these is amylose, a starch that accounts for 20 percent of dietary carbohydrate. Amylose consists of a straight chain of glucose molecules bound to their neighbours by oxygen links. The bulk of the starch is amylopectin, which has a branch chain linked in after every 25 molecules… Read More
starch
In starch …starch is the linear polymer amylose; amylopectin is the branched form. Read More
In cereal processing: Starch composition Starch consists of two components: amylose and amylopectin. The relative proportion of these two components varies, and they react differently to enzymatic attack. The enzyme _β_-amylase (maltogenic) attacks the straight chain amylose but is unable to attack most of the branch chain amylopectin. If only _β_-amylase is present, maltose is… Read More
carbohydrate storage in
algae
In algae: Nutrient storage …starch in the form of amylose or amylopectin. These starches are polysaccharides in which the monomer, or fundamental unit, is glucose. Green algal starch comprises more than 1,000 sugar molecules, joined by alpha linkages between the number 1 and number 4 carbon atoms. The cell walls of many, but not… Read More
plants
In carbohydrate: Role in energy storage …a mixture of two components: amylose and amylopectin. The glucose molecules composing amylose have a straight-chain, or linear, structure. Amylopectin has a branched-chain structure and is a somewhat more compact molecule. Several thousand glucose units may be present in a single starch molecule. (In the diagram, each small circle represents… Read More
