Partial waxy (reduced amylose) and fully waxy (amylose-free) tetraploid durum wheats (Triticum turgidum L. var. durum) were used to investigate the relationships between both intraand inter-granular variation in amylose concentration and starch functionality. Starches isolated from each genotype (intragranular amylose variants) were compared to those of commercially available hexaploid wild-typ...

Standard maize (SMS) and waxy maize starch (WMS) were hydrothermally treated at their residual moisture level (~12 %) by Instantaneous Controlled Pressure Drop process in order to obtain pre-gelatinised starches in a single step. The effect of two parameters of this process, namely the steam pressure level and processing time, on the structural and rheological properties of the native maize sta...

A set of waxy (amylose-free) experimental spring wheats (Triticum aestivum L.) of diverse parentage were grown, along with two nonwaxy and two partial waxy check cultivars, at diverse North American cultural environments. Grain yield and functional attributes of derived flours were determined. Average grain yield of the waxy lines did not differ significantly from the average yield of the check...

A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of two dietary carbohydrate sources (waxy maize starch and glucose) on the metabolic adaptation of sea bass juveniles (initial weight: 24 g) to a heat shock treatment (temperature rise from 18 degrees C to 25 degrees C within 24 h). Two isonitrogenous and isolipidic diets were formulated to contain 20% waxy maize starch (WS diet) or 20% glucose (GLU ...

1 Plant Polymer and 2 Biomaterials Processing Research Units, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1815 N. University St., Peoria, IL 61604. 3 Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Avenue, Lowell, MA 01854; current address:Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, 610 Taylor...

The retrogradation rate of waxy rice starch gel was investigated during storage at temperatures in the vicinity of the glass transition temperature of a maximally concentrated system (T g '), as it was hypothesized that such temperatures might cause different effects on retrogradation. The T g ' value of fully gelatinized waxy rice starch gel with 50% water content and the enthalpy of melting r...

Waxy starch has an important influence on the qualities of breads. Generally, grain weight and yield in waxy wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) are significantly lower than in bread wheat. In this study, we performed the first proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses of starch granule-binding proteins by comparing the waxy wheat cultivar Shannong 119 and the bread wheat cultivar Nongda 5181. These res...

Waxy varieties of the tetraploid cereal broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) have endosperm starch granules lacking detectable amylose. This study investigated the basis of this phenotype using molecular and biochemical methods. Iodine staining of starch granules in 72 plants from 38 landrace accessions found 58 nonwaxy and 14 waxy phenotype plants. All waxy types were in plants from Chinese...