Comparison of structural and functional properties of starches from five fruit kernels

Ke Guo1, Lingshang Lin1, Xiaoxu Fan1

  • 1Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology of Jiangsu Province/Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops of Jiangsu Province/Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture & Agri-Product Safety of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China.

Food Chemistry
|April 7, 2018
PubMed

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