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Description
Starch is the major energy cache in plants and algae. Starch-storing crops are raised and harvested for their
non-transitory, starch-storing organs. These crops are utilized largely as food, but also as first-generation
biofuels. In addition to its long-term energy storage role, starch also functions as a dynamic energy pool in many
Kingdom Plantae/Archaeplastida members. In Arabidopsis thaliana, starch is synthesized during the day in
leaves as a primary product of photosynthesis and is then remobilized the following night to sustain metabolism.
Up to half of the photo-assimilated carbon is partitioned into this so-called “transitory starch.” The objective of
this proposal is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms governing energy metabolism in algae via control of
starch composition and utilization.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 7/1/11 → 6/30/13 |
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