Starch endospermic legumes

W. may be started from the whole grain, bulb or tuber, which are disintegrated or cmshed after hydration and extraction of solubles (steeping), or from flour after initial - dry milling and starch (endosperm) enrichment in the case of cereal grain or seeds (legumes). All main processes are physical in nature. 

Most of the galactose and mannose produced in the endosperm of all these legumes is absorbed by the cotyledons and further metabolized. Several workers have proposed that these sugars are rapidly phosphorylated (to Gal-l-P and Man-6-P). If not directly used for energy metabolism they might be transformed to sucrose and even to starch (this accumulates in fenugreek cotyledons) which... 

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