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Diastase

Diastase

(Science: physiology) a soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.

The name is more particularly applied to that ferment formed during the germination of grain, as in the malting of barley; but it is also occasionally used to designate the amylolytic ferment contained in animal fluids, as in the saliva.

Origin: gr. Separation, fr, to stand apart; through _, to stand, set: cf. F. Diastase. Cf. Diastasis.


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Effect of diastase of malt on starch

help!!!!!! ne one, pleaseeee. i have a really big assignment. i wanna find out the effect of diastase of malt (alpha & beta mixed) on starch. what are the by products? where in the body is diastase of malt found in? what is the optimum pH in which it works. i really ...

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by Cenarius
Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:57 pm
 
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... by Chlorella species are reported to be green on gross examination. Moreover, they contain a greater amount of periodic acid-Schiff-positive, diastase-sensitive granules than do Prototheca species, owing to the starch present within the cytoplasm.3 Nonspherulating organisms mimicking Prototheca ...

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