A High-Throughput In Vitro Assay for Screening Rice Starch Digestibility.

ABSTRACT: The development of rice that can produce slow and steady postprandial glucose in the bloodstream is a response to alarmingly high global rates of obesity and related chronic diseases. However, rice grain quality programs from all over the world currently do not have access to a high-throughput method to distinguish rice breeding materials that are digested slowly. The objective of this study was to develop a high-throughput in vitro assay to screen the digestibility of cooked white rice grains and to investigate its ability to differentiate rice genotypes with a low starch digestibility rate. The digestibility rate and extent of three commercial rice genotypes with diverse GI values (Doongara, Reiziq and Waxy) were successfully differentiated using the protocol. Further investigations with

SUBMITTER: Toutounji MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6963981 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature