| Beck, E; Ziegler, P: Biosynthesis and degradation of starch in higher-plants, Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology, 40, 95-117 (1989), doi:1040-2519/89/0601-0095 | |
| Abstract: Numerous reviews on starch biosynthesis and degradation have appeared in the 1980s (4, 23, 39, 40, 51, 73, 100, 101, 124, 125). Here we update established concepts and emphasize three topics that we consider to now merit reexamination: the significance of enzyme multiplicity, a comparison of degradation of reserve and transitory starch, and the localization of starch degrading enzymes in starch-free cellular compartments of leaf tissues. We stress the cell physiological aspects of starch metabolizing enzymes. |
