Year: 1976
Type: article
Abstract: A method for loading isolated intact spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) chloroplasts with (14)C-starch is described. These intact chloroplasts were incubated aerobically in the dark for 30 minutes. Radioactivity in starch declined and glyceric acid 3-phosphate and maltose were the major radioactive products. It is proposed that starch is degraded within the chloroplast to glyceric acid 3-phosphate and to maltose.
Source: PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1104/pp.57.6.933
Authors: Carolyn Levi, Martin Gibbs
Institution: Brandeis University
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1978148053