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Countless publications are available on glucan biosynthesis. The interested reader is directed to learned review articles such as:

1. ap Rees T, Hill SA.  1994. Metabolic control analysis of plant metabolism. Plant Cell Environ. 17: 587-599

2. Ball S, Guan HP, James M, Myers A, Keeling P, et al.  1996. From glycogen to amylopectin: A model for the biogenesis of the plant starch granule. Cell. 86: 349-352

3. Ball SG, Deschamps P . 2009. Starch Metabolism. In DB Stern, EHH Harris, eds. The Chlamydomonas Sourcebook., Ed. 2. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 2-40

4. Ball SG, Morell MK.  2003. From Bacterial Glycogen to Starch: Understanding the Biogenesis of the Plant Starch Granule. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 54: 207-233

5. Cantarel BL, Coutinho PM, Rancurel C, Bernard T, Lombard V, et al.  2009. The Carbohydrate-Active EnZymes database (CAZy): an expert resource for Glycogenomics. Nucl. Acids Res. 37: D233-D238

6. Chang A, Scheer M, Grote A, Schomburg I, Schomburg D.  2009. BRENDA, AMENDA and FRENDA the enzyme information system: new content and tools in 2009. Nucl. Acids Res. 37: D588-D592

7. Comparot-Moss S, Denyer K.  2009. The evolution of the starch biosynthetic pathway in cereals and other grasses. J. Exp. Bot. 61: In Press

8. Finn RD, Mistry J, Schuster-Bockler B, Griffiths-Jones S, Hollich V, et al.  2008. Pfam: clans, web tools and services.  Nucleic. Acids. Research. 34: 247-251

9. Geigenberger P, Stitt M, Fernie AR.  2004. Metabolic control analysis and regulation of the conversion of sucrose to starch in growing potato tubers. Plant, Cell & Environment. 27: 655-673

10. Hizukuri S, Takeda Y, Maruta N.  1989. Molecular structure of rice starches. Carbohydr. Res. 189: 227-235

11. Keeling PL . 1999. From enzyme activity to flux control: a quest to understand starch deposition in developing cereal grains. In J Bryant, MM Burrell, NJ Kruger, eds. Plant Carbohydrate Biochemistry. BIOS Scientific Publishers Ltd, Oxford, pp 91-103

12. Klucinec JD, Keeling PL . 2005. Genetic modifications of plant starches for food applications. In K Shetty, P Gopinadhan, A Pometto, R Levine, eds. Food Biotechnology., Ed. 2. CRC Press, pp 675-708

13. Kossmann J, Lloyd J.  2000. Understanding and influencing starch biochemistry. Crit. Rev. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 35: 141-196

14. Lairson LL, Henrissat B, Davies GJ, Withers SG.  2008. Glycosyltransferases: Structures, Functions, and Mechanisms. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 77: 521

15. Myers AM, Morell MK, James MG, Ball SG.  2000. Recent progress toward understanding biosynthesis of the amylopectin crystal. Plant Physiology. 122: 989-997

16. Nakamura Y . 2002. Towards a better understanding of the metabolic system for amylopectin biosynthesis in plants: Rice endosperm as a model tissue. Plant Cell Physiol. 43: 718-725

17. Olsen OA . 2001. Endosperm development: cellularization and cell fate specification. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 52: 233-267

18. Smith AM . 2008. Prospects for increasing starch and sucrose yields for bioethanol production. The Plant Journal. 54: 546-558

19. Smith AM, Zeeman SC, Smith SM.  2005. Starch degradation. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 56: 73-98

20. Tomlinson K, Denyer K.  2003. Starch Synthesis in Cereal Grain. Adv. Bot. Res. 40: 1-61

21. Yu J, Wang J, Lin W, Li S, Li H, et al.  2005. The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications. PLoS Biology. 3: e38

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