... displays a typical rediodine stain. Stains of others strains result from various levels of phenotypic complementation indicating, in most cases (except for strain N), a partial restoration of amylose ... amylopectin plays a major role in establish-ing the crystalline organization of starch. Indeed, amylose-defective mutants or antisense constructs of maize andpotato accumulate normal amounts of starch ... in plants as a complex granularmixture of a- glucans (a- 1,4-linked and a- 1,6-branched)consisting chiefly of amylopectin and amylose. In amylo-pectin, the major fraction is composed of small-size...