Amylose content (AC) is a key quality trait in rice. A cross between Oryza glaberrima (African rice) and Oryza sativa (Asian rice) segregating for AC was analysed by sequencing bulks of individuals with high and low AC. SNP associated with the granule bound starch synthase (GBSS1) locus on chromosome 6 were polymorphic between the bulks. In particular, a G/A SNP that would result in an Asp to A...

Fermented soybean beverages are an alternative for improving intestinal health, and fermentation reduces the anti-nutritional factors of this legume. However, they do show high syneresis low viscosity. Modified cassava starches could be added as a thickener and/or stabilizer to improve quality product. The aim research was assess effect adding modified starch on physicochemical properties ferme...

Long α(1-4)-linked glucopyranose branches in the starch polysaccharide amylopectin can be detected by the specific binding of an anionic amphiphilic fluorescent probe. The probe forms spermidine-stabilised micelles in water resulting in fluorescence quenching. By extracting the probe from the micelles polysaccharides are detected in a "turn-on" fluorescence assay.

Slowly digestible starches have received interest due to their lower increase of postprandial blood glucose and insulin levels and, hence, modification towards slower digestibility has commercial interest. However, chemical characteristics driving enzymatic (digestive) degradation are not fully unraveled. The digestion properties been linked crystalline type, chain length distribution, amylose ...

starch is a versatile and useful polymer having physicochemical properties that can be altered by chemicals or enzymatic modification and/or physical treatment. native starches possess many disadvantages that decrease their application and industrial use, but could be modified to obtain the desired properties to meet industrial needs for a wide range of starch applications. physically modified ...

Cyclodextrins (CDs) are cyclic oligosaccharides composed of α-d-glucose units linked by α-(1,4)-glucosidic bonds. α-CD, β-CD and γ-CD contain 6, 7 or 8 d-glucose units, respectively. CDs can bind to the active site pancreatic α-amylase competitively inhibit enzyme. Adding 0.100 mg CD/mg native wheat starch substantially reduces in vitro activity is a more potent inhibitor than α-CD γ-CD. 0.025,...

Traditionally in swine nutrition, analyses of starch and fiber have focused on assessing quantity; however, both have a wide range of functional properties making them underappreciated nutrients. Starch ranging from low to high amylose changes from rapidly digestible in the upper gut to poorly digestible but fermentable in the lower gut thereby changing from a source of glucose to VFA source. L...

Plantain (Musa paradisiaca) starch,  prepared as crosslinked starch-urea (CSU), was utilized in the formulation of matrix tablets ambroxol hydrochloride. CSU synthesized by gelatinization plantain starch urea, with calcium chloride. Native and were characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), chemical material properties. Ambroxol hydrochloride prepared CSU, ...