0 a white substance that exists in large amounts in potatoes and particular grains such as rice: --
1 a white substance from potatoes and particular grains, used to make cloth stiff --
3 a substance that exists in large amounts in many plants --
4 a chemical that is used to make cloth stiff --
The first group comprises the carbohydrates, sugars, starches and so on.
In addition to starch and protein, the starchy endosperm is a repository for nucleic acids and micronutrients.
Therefore, most work has been performed on isolated aleurone layers (in which the starch is removed) and protoplasts (aleurone cells lacking the cell wall).
The size of the endosperm that contains essential protein, starch and other nutrients is an important criterion for crop breeding programmes.
However, rice is able to convert sucrose to starch at high temperature and humidity.
They sell 80 % of the production to the sour starch rallander'as for income generation.
Plants contained little starch but large quantities of sucrose were found, mainly located in the trunk.
The soluble starch shows a blue colour in the presence of iodine.
