Yam (Africa)

Yam (Africa) image(s)

NAME

English Name :

Yam (Africa)

French Name :

Igname (Afrique)

Latin Name :

Dioscorea

SOURCE

Organ :

root

Sample origin :

supermarché Grenoble

MORPHOLOGY

Size :

10-50 µm

Shape :

flat & ovoid

STRUCTURE

Allomorph :

B

% allomorph B :

100 %

Waxy :

no

REFERENCES

Bibliographical reference(s) :

Physicochemical Property of Huaishan (Rhizoma Dioscorea) and Matai (Eleocharis dulcis) Starches.
Bin Yu, Satoshi Fujii, and Shiro Kishihara, Kobe (Japan).
Starch 51-1 (1999), 5-10.

In vitro Digestibility of Raw Starches Extracted from five Yam (Dioscorea spp.) Species Grown in Jamaica.
Cliff K. Riley, Andrew O. Wheatley, Ishmael Hassan, Mohammed H. Ahmad, Errol Y.St.A. Morrison, and Helen N. Asemota.
Starch 56 (2004), 69-73.

Studies on the starches of Dioscorea.
Feiga R.T. Rosenthal, Sandra L. Pelegrino and Anna Maria N. Correa.
Starch 24-2 (1972).

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